ALMA Eyes Icy Ring around Young Planetary System
nrao_Gallery_nrao17cb20
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), M. MacGregor; NASA/ESA Hubble, P. Kalas; B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
Composite image of the Fomalhaut star system. The ALMA data, shown in orange, reveal the distant and eccentric debris disk in never-before-seen detail. The central dot is the unresolved emission from the star, which is about twice the mass of our sun. Optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope is in blue; the dark region is a coronagraphic mask, which filtered out the otherwise overwhelming light of the central star.
Provider: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Image Source: https://public.nrao.edu/?post_type=release=6408
Curator: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
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- ID
- Gallery_nrao17cb20
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Credits
- ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), M. MacGregor; NASA/ESA Hubble, P. Kalas; B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
- Release Date
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://public.nrao.edu/?post_type=release=6408
- Type
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- ALMA, HST
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Red, Yellow, Blue
- Band
- Radio, Optical
- Bandpass
- ALMA 6, -
- Central Wavelength
- 1.290E+6, -
- Start Time
- 2015-12-29T19:39:27.072000, -
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- 344.4143315, -29.6226474
- Reference Dimension
- 1170, 1809
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- 6.8370662911672E-6, 6.9626963034093E-6
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- URL
- https://public.nrao.edu
- Name
- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- outreach@nrao.edu
- Telephone
- Address
- 520 Edgemont Road
- City
- Charlottesville
- State/Province
- Virginia
- Postal Code
- 22903
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
- Publisher
- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- Publisher ID
- nrao
- Resource ID
- Resource URL
- https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/nrao17cb20a.jpg
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-04-17T14:59:58-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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