Circumstellar Disk Around Beta Pictoris

Esahubble_opo9803b_1024

esahubble_opo9803b January 7th, 1998

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

This Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 image shows the full extent of the disk, which spans 140 billion miles (1500 astronomical units) edge-to-edge. An unusual flaring at the top of the right side of the disk (the Southwest side of the disk) shows that dust has been pulled above the dense plane of the disk beyond what is observed in the left side. A gravitational perturbation by an unseen substellar- mass companion farther from the star than planets would be, or a tug from a bypassing star might cause this flaring. The image was taken on June 22, 1995.

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Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9803b/

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

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  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Pseudocolor Hubble (WFPC2) Optical -
Esahubble_opo9803b_1280
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ID
opo9803b
Subject Category
B.3.7.1  
Subject Name
Beta Pictoris, IRAS 05460-5104
Credits
Al Schultz (CSC/STScI, and NASA/ESA)
Release Date
1998-01-07T06:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9803b/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
WFPC2
Color Assignment
Pseudocolor
Band
Optical
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
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
opo9803b
Resource URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9803b.tif
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Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:50:08+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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