Hubble image archive
HD 106906
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the environment around double star HD 106906. The brilliant light from these stars is masked here to allow fainter features in the system to be seen. The stars' circumstellar disk is asymmetric and distorted, perhaps due to the gravitationa...
- Date
- Jan 1, 2020
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2020-53-4785-image
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the environment around double star HD 106906. The brilliant light from these stars is masked here to allow fainter features in the system to be seen. The stars' circumstellar disk is asymmetric and distorted, perhaps due to the gravitational tug of the wayward planet HD 106906 b, which is in a very large and elongated orbit.
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)Image Details
| 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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