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
And here are two images of the planet, superimposed, from 2004 and 2006.
Credit : NASA/STSci
I still want to see HD 8799’s whole system whizz round their parent star, but this is stunning.
Alice Sheppard on November 14, 2008
Hubble will need to stay pointing in the right direction. We’ll have to planet . . .
(Ducks and runs)
Zofia Magrian on November 19, 2008
It looks like a famous eye from the novel of my youth and I won’t admit which…