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
About the Object
| Name: | Beta Pictoris, IRAS 05460-5104 |
| Type: | Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Planetary System |
| Distance: | 70 light years |
| Category: | Exoplanets Miscellaneous Stars |
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 |