Chris Lintott’s Universe

November 14th, 2008

Or a few hours.

Posted by chrislintott in Uncategorized

I wrote yesterday about waiting a few years to watch the planets around HD 8799 move, and completely missed the fact that the Hubble Space Telescope has managed to do exactly this for one planet in Formaulhaut’s dust disk.

Here’s the disk :

Credit : NASA/STSci

Credit : NASA/STSci

And here are two images of the planet, superimposed, from 2004 and 2006.

Credit : NASA/STSci

Credit : NASA/STSci

I still want to see HD 8799′s whole system whizz round their parent star, but this is stunning.

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  1. Alice Sheppard said,

    on November 14th, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    Hubble will need to stay pointing in the right direction. We’ll have to planet . . .

    (Ducks and runs)

  2. Zofia Magrian said,

    on November 19th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    It looks like a famous eye from the novel of my youth and I won’t admit which…

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