Illustration of Hubbles Observation of Fomalhaut bs Expanding Dust Cloud
esahubble_heic2006b April 20th, 2020
Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Gáspár and G. Rieke (University of Arizona)
Illustration from the Hubble Space Telescopes observations of Fomalhaut bs expanding dust cloud from 2004 to 2013. The cloud was produced in a collision between two large bodies orbiting the bright nearby star Fomalhaut. This is the first time such a catastrophic event around another star has been imaged.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic2006b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
View Options
Download Options
Image Details
Distance
Color Mapping
×
- ID
- heic2006b
- Subject Category
- B.3.7.1
- Subject Name
- Fomalhaut b
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and A. Gáspár and G. Rieke (University of Arizona)
- Release Date
- 2020-04-20T21:00:00
- Lightyears
- 25
- Redshift
- 25
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/heic2006b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- STIS , ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Orange, Orange, Orange, Orange
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- unfiltered, B, V, I
- Central Wavelength
- 572, 435, 606, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 3000.0, 2000.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- https://esahubble.org
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- 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
- heic2006b
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/heic2006b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2020-02-17T17:02:54-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
×
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
