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Artist's View of Extrasolar Planet HAT-P-7b
This is an artist's concept of the extrasolar planet HAT-P-7b. It is a "hot Jupiter" class planet orbiting a star that is much hotter than our Sun. Hubble Space Telescope's millionth science observation was trained on this planet to look for the presence of water vapor and to stu...
- Date
- Jan 1, 2011
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2011-22-2879-image
This is an artist's concept of the extrasolar planet HAT-P-7b. It is a "hot Jupiter" class planet orbiting a star that is much hotter than our Sun. Hubble Space Telescope's millionth science observation was trained on this planet to look for the presence of water vapor and to study the planet's atmospheric structure via spectroscopy. Planets with orbits inclined nearly edge-on to Earth can be observed passing in front of and behind their stars. This allows for the planetary atmospheres to be studied by Hubble's spectrometers. Hubble's unique capabilities allow astronomers to do follow-up observations of exoplanets to characterize the composition and structure of their atmospheres.
Credits
NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | HAT-P-7b |
| Object Description | Eclipsing extrasolar planet and host star |
| R.A. Position | 19h 28m 59s |
| Dec. Position | +47°58' 11" |
| Constellation | Cygnus |
| Distance | About 1,044 light-years or 320 parsecs |
| Dimensions | The planet HAT-P-7b is 1.4 times Jupiter's diameter |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | The HST data are from proposal : D. Deming (University of Maryland), E. Agol (University of Washington), A.S. Burrows (Princeton University), D. Charbonneau (Harvard University), Mark Clampin (NASA/GSFC), J.-M. Desert (Harvard University), R. Gilliland (STScI), H. Knutson (California Institute of Technology), N. Madhusudhan (Princeton University), A Mandell (NASA/GSFC), S. Seager (MIT), and A. Showman (University of Arizona). |
| Instrument | HST>WFC3/IR |
| Exposure Dates | July 4, 2011, Exposure Time: 1427 minutes |
| Filters | G141 (grism), F139M (water/methane line) |
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