Hubble Spots Giant Flapping Shadow (VIDEO)

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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"! Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVb0V4tin64 Download in HD: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13638 En español: https://youtu.be/5Z6P8-r0wTk

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