Detail from HST/WFPC2 with Location of Pulsar

Green circle marks pulsar orbited by oldest known planet

About the data

Data for this release was taken from HST proposals 5461 and 8679 together with archived observations from HST proposal 8153 . The full team involved in this discovery is composed of Brad Hansen (UCLA), Harvey Richer (UBC), Steinn Sigurdsson (Penn State), Ingrid Stairs (UBC) and Stephen Thorsett (UCSC).