esahubble_opo1129c October 10th, 2011
Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Soummer (STScI)
Recent, sophisticated software processing of the NICMOS data removes most of the scattered starlight to reveal three planets orbiting HR 8799. Astronomers used this decade-old image to calculate the orbits of the planets.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo1129c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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