The sky around the star Gliese 667C

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eso_eso1328c June 25th, 2013

Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

This picture shows the sky around multiple star Gliese 667. The bright star at the centre is Gliese 667 A and B, the two main components of the system, which cannot be separated in this image. Gliese 667C, the third component, is visible as a bright star, very close and just under A and B, still in the glare of these brighter stars. The very subtle wobbles of Gliese 667C, measured with high precision spectrographs including HARPS, revealed it is surrounded by a full planetary system, with up to seven planets. Note that this image was assembled from two photographic plates taken years apart through different coloured filters. During that time, the motion of the nearby stars Gliese 667AB and C was sufficient for them to appear doubled in this picture, with one red and one blue image of each star. This picture also shows two regions of star formation, much further from Earth than Gliese 667. At the upper-left NGC 6357 is visible and towards the bottom of the picture NGC 6334 (The Cat’s Paw Nebula).

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1328c/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Gliese 667
Subject - Milky Way
Star > Circumstellar Material > Planetary System
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Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 17h 18m 58.9s
DEC = -34° 59’ 48.2”
Orientation
North is 4.2° CW
Field of View
2.6 x 2.7 degrees
Constellation
Scorpius

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
DSS2 (None) -
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ID
eso1328c
Subject Category
B.3.7.1  
Subject Name
Gliese 667
Credits
ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
Release Date
2013-06-25T12:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1328c/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Digitized Sky Survey 2
Instrument
None
Color Assignment
Band
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
259.745304, -34.996728
Reference Dimension
3859.0, 4000.0
Reference Pixel
1919.37494943, 1993.09247046
Scale
-0.00068361109, 0.00068361109
Rotation
-4.15680970651
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
European Southern Observatory
URL
http://www.eso.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
European Southern Observatory
Publisher ID
eso
Resource ID
eso1328c
Metadata Date
2013-06-17T16:09:47+02:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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