Illustration of Hubble's observation of Fomalhaut b's expanding dust cloud
Date: 20 April 2020
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Depicts: Fomalhaut b
Copyright: NASA, ESA, and A. Gáspár and G. Rieke (University of Arizona), CC BY 4.0
Illustration from the Hubble Space Telescope's observations of Fomalhaut b's expanding dust cloud from 2004 to 2013. The cloud was produced in a collision between two large bodies orbiting the bright nearby star Fomalhaut. This is the first time such a catastrophic event around another star has been imaged.
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Last Update: 20 April 2020
