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Protoplanetary Disk Around PDS 70
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope caught the first clear image of a forming planet, PDS 70b, around a dwarf star in 2018. The planet stands out as a bright point to the right of the center of the image, which is blacked out by the coronagraph mask used to b...
- Date
- Jan 1, 2021
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2021-021-01f3xkq4495kmgbza4r4gj4c6a
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope caught the first clear image of a forming planet, PDS 70b, around a dwarf star in 2018. The planet stands out as a bright point to the right of the center of the image, which is blacked out by the coronagraph mask used to block the light of the central star.
Credits
Image
ESO, VLT, André B. Müller (ESO)
Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | PDS 70 |
| Object Description | Protoplanetary Disk |
| R.A. Position | 14:08:10.16 |
| Dec. Position | +41:23:52.60 |
| Constellation | Centaurus |
| About The Data | |
| Instrument | SPHERE |
| Filters | 2.11 μm, 2.251 μm |
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