HUBBLE ATLAS
Warped Disc around Beta Pictoris (Beta Pictoris , IRAS 05460-5104) — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

Exoplanets

Warped Disc around Beta Pictoris

January 17, 1996 · ESA/Hubble · Beta Pictoris , IRAS 05460-5104

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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.