Jupiter-Size Planet Orbits Fomalhaut (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Jupiter-Size Planet Orbits Fomalhaut

Caption

This 2006 Hubble Space Telescope optical image shows the belt of dust and debris (bright oval) surrounding the star Fomalhaut and the planet (inset) that orbits the star every 872 years and sculpts the inner edge of the belt. A coronagraph on the Advanced Camera for Surveys blocks out the light of the star (center), which is 100 million times brighter than the planet.

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Paul Kalas/UC Berkeley; STScI

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