Overview of the Hyades star cluster (ground-based image)
esahubble_heic1309c May 9th, 2013
Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI.
This image shows the Hyades star cluster, the nearest cluster to us. The Hyades cluster is very well studied due to its location, but previous searches for planets have produced only one. A new study led by Jay Farihi of the University of Cambridge, UK, has now found the atmospheres of two burnt-out stars in this cluster known as white dwarfs to be polluted by rocky debris circling the star. Seeing evidence of asteroids points to the possibility of Earth-sized planets in the same system, as asteroids are the building blocks of major planets. Planet-forming processes are inefficient, and spawn many times more small bodies than large bodies but once rocky embryos the size of asteroids are built, planets are sure to follow.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1309c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1309c
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4.1 B.3.7.2.3 B.3.1.7
- Subject Name
- Hyades, WD0421+162, WD0431+126
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and STScI.
- Release Date
- 2013-05-09T16:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1309c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- adsabs papers
- Facility
- DSS, DSS
- Instrument
- None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 67.216679506, 15.3726919337
- Reference Dimension
- 6334.0, 4937.0
- Reference Pixel
- 3167.0, 2468.5
- Scale
- -0.0011354727113, 0.0011354727113
- Rotation
- -0.40000000000007191
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic1309c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1309c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2015-10-08T18:00:05.235175
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
