Red Giant Star Mira's Football Shape
stsci_1997-26c August 6th, 1997
Credit: Margarita Karovska (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), and NASA/ESA
Hubble's visible-light image of the disk of Mira reveals it has an odd, asymmetrical shape resembling a football. This may be tied to dramatic changes occurring during its expansion-contraction cycles, or to the presence of unresolved spots on its surface. Hubble measurements show the red giant star is 700 times larger than our Sun.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1997/news-1997-26
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- ID
- 1997-26c
- Subject Category
- B.3.1.4
- Subject Name
- Mira A, Omicron Ceti
- Credits
- Margarita Karovska (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1997-08-06T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 424
- Redshift
- 424
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1997/news-1997-26
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Distance in Lightyears
- Facility
- Hubble
- Instrument
- FOC
- Color Assignment
- Orange
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 34.83630518527, -2.97734862479
- Reference Dimension
- 500.00, 279.00
- Reference Pixel
- 50.10567236707, -126.62671612787
- Scale
- -0.00000075359, 0.00000075359
- Rotation
- -15.73974041304
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.2 revision 218+ by the Chandra X-ray Center FITS X FITS Y EPO X EPO Y 94.93 101.86 84.12 130.01 137.00 103.96 404.04 151.67 94.35 107.81 93.04 172.07 136.60 116.52 406.15 211.39 147.21 115.76 486.90 211.48 Center Pixel Coordinates: 250.00 34.83626037416 139.50 -2.97711322772
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- STScI
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- http://hubblesite.org
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- Address
- 3700 San Martin Drive
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-H-p9726c-f-502x502.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p9726c-f-502x502.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1997/26
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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