Artist’s Impression of Exoplanet HD 106906b
This 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD106906 b occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away and it may be offering clues to something that might be much closer to home: a hypothesized distant member of our Solar System dubbed “Planet Nine.” This is the first time that astronomers have been able to measure the motion of a massive Jupiter-like planet that is orbiting very far away from its host stars and visible debris disc.
Credit:ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
About the Image
Id: | heic2021a |
Type: | Artwork |
Release date: | 10 December 2020, 17:00 |
Related releases: | heic2021 |
Size: | 3840 x 2322 px |
About the Object
Name: | HD 106906 b |
Type: | Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Planetary System |
Distance: | 350 light years |
Category: | Illustrations |
Wallpapers
1024x768
135.4 KB
1280x1024
202.1 KB
1600x1200
272.7 KB
1920x1200
306.5 KB
2048x1536
408.8 KB