Uranus: 2005 (Unannotated)

Esahubble_opo0533c_1024

esahubble_opo0533c December 22nd, 2005

Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute)

These composite images from several observations by NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveal a pair of newly discovered rings encircling the planet Uranus. The left composite image is made from Hubble images taken in 2003. The new dusty rings are extremely faint and required long exposures to capture their image. The background speckle pattern is noise in the image. The outermost ring (R/2003 U 1) is likely replenished by dust blasted off a newly discovered satellite called Mab, embedded in the ring and visible as a bright streak at the top of the outer ring. The new outermost ring is twice the radius of the previously known ring system around Uranus, as seen near image center. (The inner rings are much brighter, so no noise is visible in the background). Approximately halfway between the outermost ring and inner ring system is a second newly discovered ring (R/2003 U2). Only a faint segment of it appears at the 12:00 o'clock position. Because of the long exposures, the moons are smeared out and appear as arcs within the ring system.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0533c/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Uranus
Subject - Solar System
Planet
Planet > Ring

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Hubble (ACS) Infrared (I) -
Hubble (ACS) Optical (V) -
Hubble (ACS) Optical (B) -
Hubble (ACS) Ultraviolet (U) -
Hubble (ACS) Optical (Clear) -
Esahubble_opo0533c_1280
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ID
opo0533c
Subject Category
A.1   A.1.5  
Subject Name
Uranus
Credits
NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute)
Release Date
2005-12-22T20:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0533c/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
N/A
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS
Color Assignment
Band
Infrared, Optical, Optical, Ultraviolet, Optical
Bandpass
I, V, B, U, Clear
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
opo0533c
Metadata Date
2005-12-20T15:52:51-05:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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