Solar System
Digitized Sky Survey Image of White Dwarf Stars in Hyades Cluster
May 9, 2013 · NASA · Hyades Cluster and WD 0431+126, WD 0421+162 (inset images) · Taurus
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The Hyades is the nearest open star cluster to our solar system, at 150 light-years from Earth. This image is a color composite of red- and blue-filter observations from the ground-based Digitized Sky Survey. The Hubble Space Telescope's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph was used to study the spectrum of two white dwarfs that are cluster members.
About the data
The image was created from Hubble data from proposal 12169 : B. Gaensicke (University of Warwick), D. Koester (Universitat Kiel), J. Farihi (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge), and J. Girven (University of Warwick).
