tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82683102059001710232012-02-16T03:04:35.467-08:00Gerardo Alberto Lugo Gamezhttps://profiles.google.com/107153593169754167491noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268310205900171023.post-49487857470050568742008-11-14T09:13:00.000-08:002008-11-14T09:17:02.971-08:00<p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html">Discover the cosmos!</a> Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured,<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;">along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> 2008 November 14<br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0811/fomalhaut_hst_lab.jpg"> <img style="width: 481px; height: 356px;" src="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0811/fomalhaut_hst_lab800.jpg" alt="See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available." /></a></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> <center> <span style="font-size:85%;"><b> Fomalhaut b</b><br /><b>Credit:</b> <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/">NASA</a>, <a href="http://www.spacetelescope.org/">ESA</a>, P. Kalas, J. Graham, E. Chiang, E. Kite (<a href="http://astro.berkeley.edu/">Univ. California, Berkeley</a>),<br />M. Clampin (<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/">NASA/Goddard</a>), M. Fitzgerald (<a href="https://www.llnl.gov/">Lawrence Livermore NL</a>),<br />K. Stapelfeldt, J. Krist (<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/jpl/">NASA/JPL</a>) </span> </center> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:85%;"><b> Explanation: </b><a href="http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/%7Ekaler/sow/fomalhaut.html">Fomalhaut</a> (<a href="http://www.astronomyclub.org/learn/Say_What.htm">sounds</a> like "foam-a-lot") is a bright, young, star, a short 25 light-years from planet Earth in the direction of the constellation <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piscis_Austrinus">Piscis Austrinus</a>. In this sharp composite from the <a href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/39/">Hubble Space Telescope, Fomalhaut's</a> surrounding ring of dusty debris is imaged in detail, with overwhelming glare from the star masked by an occulting disk in the camera's coronagraph. <a href="http://astro.berkeley.edu/%7Eechiang/fomalhaut/fom.html">Astronomers now identify</a>, the tiny point of light in the small box at the right as a planet about 3 times the mass of Jupiter orbiting 10.7 billion miles from the star (almost 14 times the Sun-Jupiter distance). Designated Fomalhaut b, the massive planet probably shapes and maintains the ring's relatively sharp inner edge, while the ring itself is likely a larger, younger analog of our own <a href="http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/kb.html">Kuiper Belt</a> - the solar system's outer reservoir of <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080716.html">icy bodies</a>. The Hubble data represent the <a href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/39/image/a/">first visible-light image</a> of a planet circling another star.</span><script type="text/javascript">rl = 'http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081114.html'; digg_skin = 'compact'; </script> <script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script><iframe src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.php?u=http%3A//apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081114.html&amp;s=compact" frameborder="0" height="18" scrolling="no" width="120"></iframe> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8268310205900171023-4948785747005056874?l=astroescence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gerardo Alberto Lugo Gamezhttps://profiles.google.com/107153593169754167491noreply@blogger.com1