Hubble image archive
Vega Hubble Compass Image
Caption 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 evi...
- Date
- Nov 1, 2024
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2024-030-01jbf22ww5qsdzn5rwgd8gs1tt
Caption
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.
Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Vega |
| Object Description | Dusty debris disk |
| R.A. Position | 18:36:56.34 |
| Dec. Position | +38:47:01.28 |
| Constellation | Lyra |
| Distance | 25 light-years |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | The Hubble observations include those from program (S. Wolff). |
| Instrument | STIS |
| Exposure Dates | April 2022 - February 2023 |
| Filters | 50CORON; F25ND5 |
| About The Image | |
| Color Info | The image is an exposure acquired by the STIS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. The color results from assigning a blue hue to a monochromatic (grayscale) image. |
| About The Image | |
| Compass and Scale Image | An 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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