Hubble's View of Beta Pictoris in 2012

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esahubble_beta-pictoris October 13th, 2021

Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Apai and G. Schneider (University of Arizona)

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to take the most detailed picture to date of a large, edge-on, gas-and-dust disc encircling the 20-million-year-old star Beta Pictoris. Beta Pictoris remains the only directly imaged debris disc that has a giant planet (discovered in 2009). Because the orbital period is comparatively short (estimated to be between 18 and 22 years), astronomers can see large motion in just a few years. This allows scientists to study how the Beta Pictoris disc is distorted by the presence of a massive planet embedded within the disc. This 2012 visible-light Hubble image traces the disc to within about 1050 million kilometres of the star (which is inside the radius of Saturn's orbit about the Sun).

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/beta-pictoris/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Beta Pictoris
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Position Details Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 5h 47m 17.1s
DEC = -51° 3’ 58.7”
Orientation
North is 13.8° CW
Field of View
1.2 x 0.2 arcminutes
Constellation
Pictor

Color Mapping Details Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Blue Hubble (STIS ) Optical (None) 574.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Blue
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ID
beta-pictoris
Subject Category
Subject Name
Beta Pictoris
Credits
NASA, ESA, D. Apai and G. Schneider (University of Arizona)
Release Date
2021-10-13T16:07:39
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://esahubble.org/images/beta-pictoris/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
STIS
Color Assignment
Blue
Band
Optical
Bandpass
None
Central Wavelength
574
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
None
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
86.82130399790388, -51.06631590774933
Reference Dimension
1184.0, 242.0
Reference Pixel
592.0, 121.0
Scale
-1.6961249774479375e-05, 1.6961249774479375e-05
Rotation
-13.759999999999989
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
https://esahubble.org
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr
City
Baltimore
State/Province
MD
Postal Code
21218
Country
United States
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
beta-pictoris
Resource URL
http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/beta-pictoris.tif
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Metadata Date
2023-11-20T22:29:25.953009
Metadata Version
1.1
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