Compass Image for HR 4796A
HR 4796A
237 light-years
Image ls about 23 arc seconds across (about 0.02 light-years)
The HST observations include those from program 13786 (G. Schneider)
NASA, ESA, and G. Schneider (University of Arizona)
These images are a composite of separate exposures acquired by the STIS-CCD instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. The color results from assigning the color blue to a monochromatic (grayscale) image.
