Exoplanets
HD 106906
December 10, 2020 · NASA · HD 106906 and exoplanet HD 106906b · Crux
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This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the environment around double star HD 106906. The brilliant light from these stars is masked here to allow fainter features in the system to be seen. The stars' circumstellar disk is asymmetric and distorted, perhaps due to the gravitational tug of the wayward planet HD 106906 b, which is in a very large and elongated orbit.
About the colours
These images are a composite of separate exposures acquired by the STIS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. The color results from assigning a blue hue to the monochromatic (grayscale) image.
About the data
The HST observations include those from program 14670 (P. Kalas)
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