Beta Pictoris Edge-On

esahubble_opo9538c October 10th, 1995

Credit: Paul Kalas (University of Hawaii 2.2-m telescope, Mauna Kea)

The disk appears four times thicker in a ground-based image of Beta Pictoris than in a Hubble Space Telescope image due to the limitation of atmospheric seeing.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9538c/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Type: Observation
Object Name: Beta Pictoris • IRAS 05460-5104
Subject - Milky Way: Star > Circumstellar Material > Planetary System

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	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	Other (None)	Optical (R)	700.0 nm

ID: opo9538c
Subject Category: B.3.7.1
Subject Name: Beta Pictoris, IRAS 05460-5104
Credits: Paul Kalas (University of Hawaii 2.2-m telescope, Mauna Kea)

Release Date: 1995-10-10T05:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9538c/

Type: Observation
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Facility: Other
Instrument: None
Color Assignment: Grayscale

Band: Optical
Bandpass: R
Central Wavelength: 700

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Reference Dimension: 79.0, 50.0

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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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Address: Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City: Garching bei München
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Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: opo9538c

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9538c.tif
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Metadata Date: 2003-12-09T17:44:30+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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