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Observaciones de Hubble y Webb del disco circunestelar de Vega

Caption [left]A Hubble Space Telescope false-color view of a 100-billion-mile-wide disk of dust around the summer star Vega. Hubble detects reflected light from dust that is the size of smoke particles largely in a halo on the periphery of the disk. The disk is very smooth, with...

Fecha
Nov 1, 2024
Misión
Hubble Space Telescope
ID de archivo
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Caption

[left]
A Hubble Space Telescope false-color view of a 100-billion-mile-wide disk of dust around the summer star Vega. Hubble detects reflected light from dust that is the size of smoke particles largely in a halo on the periphery of the disk. The disk is very smooth, with no evidence of embedded large planets. The black spot at the center blocks out the bright glow of the hot young star.

[right]
The James Webb Space Telescope resolves the glow of warm dust in a disk halo, at 23 billion miles out. The outer disk (analogous to the solar system’s Kuiper Belt) extends from 7 billion miles to 15 billion miles. The inner disk extends from the inner edge of the outer disk down to close proximity to the star. There is a notable dip in surface brightness of the inner disk from approximately 3.7 to 7.2 billion miles. The black spot at the center is due to lack of data from saturation.

Detalles de la imagen

About The Object
Object NameVega
Object DescriptionDusty debris disk
R.A. Position18:36:56.34
Dec. Position+38:47:01.28
ConstellationLyra
Distance25 light-years
About The Data
Data DescriptionThe Hubble observations include those from program (S. Wolff) and the Webb observations include those from program (C. Beichman and A. Gáspár)
InstrumentHubble: STIS; Webb: MIRI
Exposure DatesHubble: April 2022 - February 2023; Webb: August 2023
FiltersHubble: STIS 50CORON; Webb: MIRI F2550W
About The Image
Color InfoThese images were acquired by the STIS instrument on the Hubble and MIRI instrument on Webb. The color results from assigning a hue to a monochromatic (grayscale) image, blue for Hubble and orange for Webb.
About The Image
Compass and Scale ImageAn astronomical image with a scale that shows how large an object is on the sky, a compass that shows how the object is oriented on the sky, and the filters with which the image was made.

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