The disc around the star HD 135344B as seen with SPHERE
eso_eso2513c July 21st, 2025
Credit: ESO/T. Stolker et al.
This image, captured with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows a spiral disc around the young star HD 135344B. The image, which was released in 2016, was obtained with the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research (SPHERE) instrument. Spiral features like these can be sculpted by planets, although this image doesn’t show evidence of companions orbiting HD 135344B. However, new observations at somewhat longer wavelengths, obtained with the Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph (ERIS) at the VLT, have found a possible young planet around this star. The central black circle corresponds to a coronagraph –– a device that blocks the light of the star to reveal faint details around it.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2513c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- eso2513c
- Subject Category
- B.3.7.2.1
- Subject Name
- HD135344B
- Credits
- ESO/T. Stolker et al.
- Release Date
- 2025-07-21T14:00:00
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- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2513c/
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- Equinox
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- 931.0, 931.0
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- European Southern Observatory
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- https://www.eso.org
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- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
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- Garching bei München
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- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
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- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
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- eso2513c
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- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso2513c.tif
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- 2025-07-15T12:16:28+01:00
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- 1.1
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