Artist's Concept of Exoplanet HR 8799b
Release Date April 1, 2009
This is an artistic illustration of the giant planet HR 8799b.
The planet was first discovered in 2007 at the Gemini North observatory. It was identified in the NICMOS archival data in a follow-up search of NICMOS archival data to see if Hubble had also serendipitously imaged it.
The planet is young and hot, at a temperature of 1500 degrees
Fahrenheit. It is slightly larger than Jupiter and may be at least
seven times more massive.
Analysis of the NICMOS data suggests the planet has water vapor in its
atmosphere and is only partially cloud covered. It is not known if the
planet has rings or moons, but circumplanetary debris is common among
the outer planets of our solar system.
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/ESA/G. Bacon (STScI)
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Picture Books, Matthew Spencer, Andra Secelean, tietoukka, and 42 other people added this photo to their favorites.
nna:2006 (39 months ago | reply)
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Σταύρος (39 months ago | reply)
Awesome work!
Lourenco_BR (39 months ago | reply)
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Eddi van W. (38 months ago | reply)
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Eddi van W. (38 months ago | reply)
thank you ;)
hellen.888 (29 months ago | reply)
Wow !
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Ghen2013 (3 months ago | reply)
wonderful.....