First ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star
eso_eso2011a July 22nd, 2020
Credit: ESO/Bohn et al.
This image, captured by the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, shows the star TYC 8998-760-1 accompanied by two giant exoplanets. This is the first time astronomers have directly observed more than one planet orbiting a star similar to the Sun. The image was captured by blocking the light from the young, Sun-like star (on the top left corner) using a coronagraph, which allows for the fainter planets to be detected. The bright and dark rings we see on the star’s image are optical artefacts. The two planets are visible as two bright dots in the centre and bottom right of the frame.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2011a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso2011a
- Subject Category
- B.3.7.1
- Subject Name
- TYC 8998-760-1
- Credits
- ESO/Bohn et al.
- Release Date
- 2020-07-22T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2011a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- SPHERE, SPHERE
- Color Assignment
- Orange, Orange
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- J2, K1
- Central Wavelength
- 1190, 2110
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 201.299792467, -64.9393834043
- Reference Dimension
- 1310.0, 1310.0
- Reference Pixel
- 655.0, 655.0
- Scale
- -6.66340581897e-07, 6.66340581897e-07
- Rotation
- -0
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- https://www.eso.org
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso2011a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso2011a.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2024-02-22T14:19:28.757675
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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