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Wide-field view of the Summer Triangle (ground-based image) (The Great Triangle) — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Wide-field view of the Summer Triangle (ground-based image)

December 11, 2007 · ESA/Hubble · The Great Triangle

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A wide field image of the region of sky in which HD 189733b is located. In this image we can see the asterism of the "Summer Triangle" a giant triangle in the sky composed of the three bright stars Vega (top left), Altair (lower middle) and Deneb (far left). HD 189733b is orbiting a star very close to the centre of the triangle.