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Wide-field view of the Summer Triangle


Date: 18 March 2008
Depicts: Milky Way and Summer Triangle
Copyright: A. Fujii

Wide field image of the region on the sky in which the exoplanet HD 189733b is located. HD 189733b is orbiting a star very close to the centre of the Summer Triangle. This giant triangle in the sky can be seen on the left in this view and is composed of the three bright stars Vega (top left), Altair (lower middle) and Deneb (far left).

Last Update: 1 September 2019
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