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Vista del Hubble y ALMA de Beta Pictoris
This is a color composite image of the large, edge-on, gas-and-dust disk encircling the 20-million-year-old star Beta Pictoris. The image shows a curious asymmetry in the dust and gas distribution. This may be due to a planetary collision within the disk, which may have pulverize...
- Fecha
- Jan 1, 2015
- Misión
- Hubble Space Telescope
- ID de archivo
- hubblesite-images-2015-06-3494-image
This is a color composite image of the large, edge-on, gas-and-dust disk encircling the 20-million-year-old star Beta Pictoris. The image shows a curious asymmetry in the dust and gas distribution. This may be due to a planetary collision within the disk, which may have pulverized the bodies. The new Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph visible-light image (shown in blue) traces the disk in closer to the star to within about 650 million miles of the star (which is inside Saturn's orbit about the Sun). Radio data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) shows the dust (1.3 millimeter is colored green) and carbon monoxide gas (colored red).
Credits
Credit for Hubble Data: NASA, ESA, D. Apai and G. Schneider (University of Arizona);Credit for ALMA Data: NRAO and W.R.F. Dent (ALMA, Santiago, Chile)
Detalles de la imagen
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Beta Pictoris |
| Object Description | Star with Circumstellar Disk |
| R.A. Position | 05h 47m 17.08s |
| Dec. Position | -51° 3' 59.43" |
| Constellation | Pictor |
| Distance | 63 light-years (19 parsecs) |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | The image was created from Hubble data from the following proposals: PI: S. Heap (Eureka Scientific and NASA/GSFC) and PI: D. Apai (University of Arizona). The science team includes: D. Apai and G. Schneider (University of Arizona), C. Grady (Eureka Scientific and NASA/GSFC), M. Wyatt (University of Cambridge), A.-M. Lagrange (CNRS, Grenoble, France), M. Kuchner and C. Stark (NASA/GSFC), and S. Lubow (STScI). |
| Instrument | HST>STIS |
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