Omicron Ceti
esahubble_opo9726c August 6th, 1997
Credit: Margarita Karovska (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), and NASA/ESA
Hubble's visible-light image of the disk of Omicron Ceti reveals it has an odd, asymmetrical shape resembling a football. This may be tied to dramatic changes occurring during its expansion-contraction cycles, or to the presence of unresolved spots on its surface. Hubble measurements show the red giant star is 700 times larger than our Sun.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9726c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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Image Details
- ID
- opo9726c
- Subject Category
- E.3
- Subject Name
- IRAS 02168-0312, Mira A, Omicron Ceti
- Credits
- Margarita Karovska (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1997-08-06T06:00:00
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- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9726c/
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- Observation
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- Equinox
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- Reference Dimension
- 502.0, 502.0
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- Rotation
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- FITS Header
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- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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- 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
- opo9726c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9726c.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:48:40+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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