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Circumstellar Disks HD 141943 and HD 191089
The two images at top reveal debris disks around young stars uncovered in archival images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer observed the disks in near-infrared light in 2007. Astronomers used a coronagraph to block...
- Date
- Jan 1, 2014
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2014-16-3328-image
The two images at top reveal debris disks around young stars uncovered in archival images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer observed the disks in near-infrared light in 2007. Astronomers used a coronagraph to block out the bright light from each star so they could analyze the faint, reflected light off dust particles in the disks. The illustration beneath each image depicts the orientation of the debris disks. Astronomers retrieved these images from the Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) and used more powerful image analysis techniques to search for planetary systems.
Credits
Image: NASA, ESA, and R. Soummer and A. Feild (STScI);Science: NASA, ESA, R. Soummer (STScI), and M. Perrin (STScI), L. Pueyo (STScI/Johns Hopkins University), C. Chen and D. Golimowski (STScI), J.B. Hagan (STScI/Purdue University), T. Mittal (University of California, Berkeley/Johns Hopkins University), E . Choquet, M. Moerchen, and M. N'Diaye (STScI), A. Rajan (Arizona State University), S. Wolff (STScI/Purdue University), J. Debes and D. Hines (STScI), and G. Schneider (Steward Observatory/University of Arizona)
Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | HD 141943, HD 191089 |
| Object Description | Circumstellar Disks |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | The NICMOS data for these images are from the following HST proposals: (PI: D. Hines, STScI) and (PI: S. Metchev, Stonybrook U.) HD 141943 (left) R.A.: 15h 53m 27s.30 Dec.: -42° 16' 0".72 Filters: F110W and F160W Exposure Date: 2006, 2007 HD 191089 (right) R.A.: 20h 9m 5s.21 Dec.: -26° 13' 26".53 Filter: F110W Exposure Date: 2007 |
| Instrument | HST>NICMOS |
| Exposure Dates | 2006, 2007 |
| Filters | HD 141943 (left): F110W and F160W HD 191089 (right): F110W |
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