Exoplanet Orbiting Star
by Nasa
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Exoplanet Orbiting Star
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Nasa
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Photograph - Photograph
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This is the first visible-light image of an exoplanet orbiting Formalhaut (about the size of 3 Jupiters), a star in the constellation Piscis Australis. The small planet has been named Formalhaut b, and is about 10.7 billion miles from Formalhaut, and approximately 1. 8 billion miles inside the inner edge of a debris belt similar to the Kuiper Belt in our solar system. The image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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March 14th, 2013
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