DSS image of Fomalhaut (ground-based image)
esahubble_heic0821f November 13th, 2008
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
This image shows Fomalhaut, the star around which the newly discovered planet orbits. Fomalhaut is much hotter than our Sun, 15 times as bright, and lies 25 light-years from Earth. It is blazing through hydrogen at such a furious rate that it will burn out in only one billion years, 10% the lifespan of our star. The field of view is 2.7 x 2.9 degrees.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic0821f/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0821f
- Subject Category
- B.3 B.3.7.1
- Subject Name
- Fomalhaut
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
- Release Date
- 2008-11-13T20:30:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/heic0821f/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- DSS, DSS
- Instrument
- None, None
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- B, R
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 344.424292952, -29.59891806
- Reference Dimension
- 9563.0, 10277.0
- Reference Pixel
- 4781.5, 5138.5
- Scale
- -0.000280144244269, 0.000280144244269
- Rotation
- -0.39999999999999991
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- https://esahubble.org
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- United States
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic0821f
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/heic0821f.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2008-11-07T12:21:38+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
