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Beta Pictoris, Hubble View 2012 — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Beta Pictoris, Hubble View 2012

February 19, 2015 · NASA · Pictor

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About the data

The image was created from Hubble data from the following proposals: 7125 PI: S. Heap (Eureka Scientific and NASA/GSFC) and 12551 PI: D. Apai (University of Arizona).

The science team includes: D. Apai and G. Schneider (University of Arizona), C. Grady (Eureka Scientific and NASA/GSFC), M. Wyatt (University of Cambridge), A.-M. Lagrange (CNRS, Grenoble, France), M. Kuchner and C. Stark (NASA/GSFC), and S. Lubow (STScI).

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