PDS 70 Inner Disk (Artist Concept)
stsci_2023-130a July 24th, 2023
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)
This artist concept portrays the star PDS 70 and its inner protoplanetary disk. New measurements by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected water vapor at distances of less than 100 million miles from the star – the region where rocky, terrestrial planets may be forming. This is the first detection of water in the terrestrial region of a disk already known to host two or more protoplanets, one of which is shown at upper right.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-130
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://stsci.edu/copyright/
- ID
- 2023-130a
- Subject Category
- B.3.7.2.1
- Subject Name
- PDS 70
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)
- Release Date
- 2023-07-24
- Lightyears
- 370
- Redshift
- 370
- Reference Url
- https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-130
- Type
- Artwork
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- distance in lightyears
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- 212.0423125, -41.3979361
- Reference Dimension
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- Position
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
- URL
- http://stsci.edu
- 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://stsci.edu/copyright/
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-J-p23130a-f-3840x2160.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI_PR_2023-130/STSCI-J-p23130a-f-3840x2160.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2023-07-26T11:15:50-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
