HST ACS/HRC wide view of Fomalhaut b planet in 2004 and 2006
esahubble_heic0821d November 13th, 2008
Credit: NASA, ESA and P. Kalas (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
The two objects visible in the image are the planet Fomalhaut b, captured 21 months apart, using Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. Being able to see that the planet has moved is a strong sign that it is in fact in orbit around the star Fomalhaut. Astronomers calculate that it takes Fomalhaut b 872 years to orbit its parent star, and that it is at most three times the mass of Jupiter
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0821d/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- heic0821d
- Subject Category
- B.3.7.1 B.3.7.2
- Subject Name
- Fomalhaut, Fomalhaut b
- Credits
- NASA, ESA and P. Kalas (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
- Release Date
- 2008-11-13T20:30:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0821d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 606, 435
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 720.0, 720.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic0821d
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0821d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2008-11-10T09:19:51-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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