Warped Disc around Beta Pictoris

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esahubble_opo9602c January 17th, 1996

Credit: Chris Burrows, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) the European Space Agency (ESA), J. Krist (STScI), the WFPC2 IDT team, and NASA

False-color is applied through image processing to accentuate details in the disk structure. Hubble reveals that the pink-white inner edge of the disk is slightly tilted from the plane of the outer disk (red-yellow-green) as identified by a dotted line.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9602c/

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
Beta Pictoris IRAS 05460-5104
Subject - Milky Way
Star > Circumstellar Material > Planetary System

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Pseudocolor Hubble (WFPC2) Infrared (I) 814.0 nm
Pseudocolor Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (V) 555.0 nm
Pseudocolor Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (B) 439.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Pseudocolor
Pseudocolor
Pseudocolor
Esahubble_opo9602c_1280
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ID
opo9602c
Subject Category
B.3.7.1  
Subject Name
Beta Pictoris, IRAS 05460-5104
Credits
Chris Burrows, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) the European Space Agency (ESA), J. Krist (STScI), the WFPC2 IDT team, and NASA
Release Date
1996-01-17T14:30:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9602c/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
Color Assignment
Pseudocolor, Pseudocolor, Pseudocolor
Band
Infrared, Optical, Optical
Bandpass
I, V, B
Central Wavelength
814, 555, 439
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
opo9602c
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:45:51+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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