# Hubble Spots Giant Flapping Shadow SVb0V4tin64

In 2017, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a huge wing-shaped shadow cast by a fledgling star’s unseen, planet-forming disk. The young star, called HBC 672, is casting the shadow across a more distant cloud in a star-forming region—like a fly wandering into the beam of a flashlight shining on a wall.

Now, after observing the shadow again, astronomers report that they see the giant shadow flapping its \"wings\"!

Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/hubble-sees-cosmic-flapping-bat-shadow En español: https://ciencia.nasa.gov/el-hubble-observa-el-aleteo-cosmico-de-la-sombra-de-un-murcielago

Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Paul Morris (USRA): Producer / Editor Visualization Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. James and G. Bacon (STScI)

Music credits: “Floating Freefall” by Jason Steele \[ASCAP\], Soundcast Music \[SESAC\] and Universal Production Music

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- Kind: Short
- Year: 2020
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: NASA Goddard
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_Spots_Giant_Flapping_Shadow_SVb0V4tin64.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASA Goddard
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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