Warped Disc around Beta Pictoris
False-color is applied through image processing to accentuate details in the disk structure. Hubble reveals that the pink-white inner edge of the disk is slightly tilted from the plane of the outer disk (red-yellow-green) as identified by a dotted line.
Credit:
Chris Burrows, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) the European Space Agency (ESA), J. Krist (STScI), the WFPC2 IDT team, and NASA
About the Image
NASA press release
| Id: | opo9602c |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 17 January 1996, 14:30 |
| Size: | 570 x 113 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Beta Pictoris, IRAS 05460-5104 |
| Type: | • Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Planetary System • Stars Images/Videos • Miscellaneous Images/Videos |
| Distance: | 70 light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Optical B |
439 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
| Optical V |
555 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
| Infrared I |
814 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
