The star GJ1214
eso_eso0950b December 16th, 2009
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
GJ1214 is a star five times smaller than our Sun and three hundred times less bright. Located only 40 light-years away from us, it is found to be surrounded by a super-Earth planet whose interior is likely mostly made of water ice. The planet appears to be rather hot and surrounded by a thick atmosphere, which makes it inhospitable for life as we know it on Earth. This image is based on data obtained through 2 different filters (blue and red), which were taken 7 years apart. Because the star is very close to the Earth, it has a large apparent motion on the sky, and so has moved in between the 7 years. This is why the star appears as a double coloured object in this image.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0950b/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso0950b
- Subject Category
- B.3
- Subject Name
- GJ1214
- Credits
- ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Release Date
- 2009-12-16T19:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0950b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, B
- Central Wavelength
- 658, 445
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 258.829084, 4.963803
- Reference Dimension
- 9816.0, 10685.0
- Reference Pixel
- 5330.728486, 5346.88859034
- Scale
- -0.00027968565, 0.00027968565
- Rotation
- 0.35909291742
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.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
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso0950b
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0950b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-12-14T16:57:57+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
