Fomalhaut B: first optical image of an exoplanet

14 November, 2008 (14:51) |

Astronomers discovered on picture taken by Hubble Space Telesope of Fomolhaut star a tiny dot, which has been identified as its orbiting planet called Fomalhaut B. It has carved a path along the inner edge of a vast, dusty debris ring encircling Fomalhaut that is 34.6 billion kilometers across. Fomalhaut b lies 2.9 billion kilometers inside the ring’s inner edge and orbits 10.7 billion miles from its star.

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Date: November 14, 2008, 17:50

[...] follow-up image in 2006 showed that one of the objects is moving through space with Fomalhaut but changed position relative to the ring since the 2004 exposure. The amount of displacement [...]

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