![]() ![]() On the other hand, the diffraction spikes of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope are six-pointed as a result of Webb’s hexagonal mirror segments and 3-legged support structure for the secondary mirror. This is most noticeable in the way that bright stars appear, with their distinctive eight-pointed diffraction spikes. The four spikes surrounding the stars in this image are created by four vanes inside Hubble supporting the telescope’s secondary mirror. As a result, they reveal hints of Hubble’s structure. The brightest stars in this image are adorned with prominent cross-shaped patterns of light known as diffraction spikes, a type of imaging artifact caused by the support structure of. These prominent artifacts are created by starlight interacting with Hubble’s inner workings. Hubble also left its own subtle signature on this astronomical portrait in the form of the diffraction spikes surrounding the bright stars. Detailed information from the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) at infrared and visible wavelengths were layered to reveal rich details of this corner of the Orion Nebula. This image overlays data from two of Hubble’s instruments. The patchy gas and dust of the Orion Nebula pervade the scene. Orion Variables are typically associated with diffuse nebulae, and V 372 Orionis is no exception. Such stars are visible to astronomers as irregular variations in luminosity. To the left a Hubble open license image of V838 Monocerotis, with very prominent diffraction spikes on top of some nebulosity, and some saturated and bloat. V 372 Orionis is a specific type of variable star known as an Orion Variable that experience some tempestuous moods and growing pains. Both the stars lie in the Orion Nebula, a colossal region of star formation located nearly 1450 light years from Earth. When light diffracts around Hubbles crossed-shaped struts, the result is a diffraction pattern of crisscrossed dashes. It captures a smaller companion star in the upper left of the image. Hubble also left its own subtle signature on this astronomical portrait in the form of the diffraction spikes surrounding the bright stars. Hubble Space Telescope captured an image that is the bright variable star V 372 Orionis in the Orion Nebula.
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