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Imagen de brújula HD 106906
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows one possible orbit (dashed ellipse) of the 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet HD 106906 b. This remote world is widely separated from its host stars, whose brilliant light is masked here to allow the planet to be seen. The planet resides outside its...
- Fecha
- Jan 1, 2020
- Misión
- Hubble Space Telescope
- ID de archivo
- hubblesite-images-2020-53-4786-image
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows one possible orbit (dashed ellipse) of the 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet HD 106906 b. This remote world is widely separated from its host stars, whose brilliant light is masked here to allow the planet to be seen. The planet resides outside its system's circumstellar debris disk, which is akin to our own Kuiper Belt of small, icy bodies beyond Neptune. The disk itself is asymmetric and distorted, perhaps due to the gravitational tug of the wayward planet. Other points of light in the image are background stars.
Credits
NASA, ESA, M. Nguyen (University of California, Berkeley), R. De Rosa (European Southern Observatory), and P. Kalas (University of California, Berkeley and SETI Institute)Detalles de la imagen
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | HD 106906 and exoplanet HD 106906b |
| Object Description | exoplanet orbiting binary star system |
| R.A. Position | 12:17:53.114 |
| Dec. Position | -55:58:32.11 |
| Constellation | Crux |
| Distance | 336 light-years |
| Dimensions | Image is about 25 arc seconds across (about 0.04 light-years or over 2500 AU) |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | The HST observations include those from program (P. Kalas) |
| Instrument | STIS |
| Exposure Dates | 24 Feb 2017 |
| Filters | MIRVIS |
| About The Image | |
| Color Info | These images are a composite of separate exposures acquired by the STIS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. The color results from assigning a blue hue to the monochromatic (grayscale) image. |
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