Image: PIA18928-Protostar-HOPS383-20150323

Description: PIA18928: Embryonic Star's Outburst http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA18928 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4518 Infrared images from instruments at Kitt Peak National Observatory (left) and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope document the outburst of HOPS 383, a young protostar in the Orion star-formation complex. The background is a wide view of the region taken from a Spitzer four-color infrared mosaic. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Spacecraft operations are based at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Littleton, Colorado. Data are archived at the Infrared Science Archive housed at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at Caltech. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. For more information about Spitzer, visit http://spitzer.caltech.edu and http://www.nasa.gov/spitzer.
Title: PIA18928-Protostar-HOPS383-20150323
Credit: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/figures/PIA18928_fig1.jpg
Author: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Toledo; background: E. Safron et al.
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