stsci_2022-016c April 4th, 2022
Credit: NASA, ESA and STScI
Researchers were able to directly image newly forming exoplanet AB Aurigae b over a 13-year span using Hubble’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and its Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrograph (NICMOS).
In the top right, Hubble’s NICMOS image captured in 2007 shows AB Aurigae b in a due south position compared to its host star, which is covered by the instrument’s coronagraph. The image captured in 2021 by STIS shows the protoplanet has moved in a counterclockwise motion over time.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2022/news-2022-016
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
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