Beta Pictoris Edge-On

Esahubble_opo9538b_1024

esahubble_opo9538b October 10th, 1995

Credit: Al Schultz (CSC/STScI) and NASA/ESA

This Hubble Space Telescope image of a portion of a vast dust disk around the star Beta Pictoris shows that the disk is thinner than thought previously. Estimates based on the Hubble image place the disk's thickness as no more than one billion miles (600 million kilometers), or about 1/4 previous estimates from ground-based observations.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9538b/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

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Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Beta Pictoris • IRAS 05460-5104
Subject - Milky Way
Star > Circumstellar Material > Planetary System

Color Mapping Details Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Grayscale Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (V) 555.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Grayscale
Esahubble_opo9538b_1280
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ID
opo9538b
Subject Category
B.3.7.1  
Subject Name
Beta Pictoris, IRAS 05460-5104
Credits
Al Schultz (CSC/STScI) and NASA/ESA
Release Date
1995-10-10T05:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9538b/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
WFPC2
Color Assignment
Grayscale
Band
Optical
Bandpass
V
Central Wavelength
555
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
448.0, 282.0
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
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
opo9538b
Resource URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9538b.tif
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Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:44:29+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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