Gap in stellar dust disk may be swept out by planet

Esahubble_opo9903b_1024

esahubble_opo9903b January 8th, 1999

Credit: Alycia Weinberger, Eric Becklin (UCLA), Glenn Schneider (University of Arizona) and NASA/ESA

A striking NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope near-infrared picture of a disk around the star HD 141569, located about 320 light-years away in the constellation Libra. Hubble shows that the 75 billion-mile wide disk seems to come in two parts: a dark band separates a bright inner region from a fainter outer region. The structure superficially looks much like the largest gap in Saturn's rings - but on a vastly larger scale.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9903b/

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
HD 141569 IRAS 15473-0346
Subject - Milky Way
Star > Evolutionary Stage > White Dwarf
Star > Circumstellar Material > Planetary System
Star > Circumstellar Material > Disk

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Grayscale Hubble (NICMOS) Infrared (Near-IR) 1.1 µm
Spectrum_base
Grayscale
Esahubble_opo9903b_1280
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ID
opo9903b
Subject Category
B.3.1.7   B.3.7.1   B.3.7.2  
Subject Name
HD 141569, IRAS 15473-0346
Credits
Alycia Weinberger, Eric Becklin (UCLA), Glenn Schneider (University of Arizona) and NASA/ESA
Release Date
1999-01-08T06:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9903b/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Distance in light years from: www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/events/phdtheses/jonkheid/aa4769.pdf
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
NICMOS
Color Assignment
Grayscale
Band
Infrared
Bandpass
Near-IR
Central Wavelength
1100
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
240.0, 208.0
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
opo9903b
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:52:37+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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