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November 13, 2008 02:30 PM (EST)
News Release Number: STScI-2008-39
Hubble Directly Observes Planet Orbiting Fomalhaut
Image: Artist's Concept of Exoplanet Orbiting Fomalhaut
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This illustration shows the newly discovered planet, Fomalhaut b, orbiting its sun, Fomalhaut. A structure comprised mostly of brown and gold colors surrounds Fomalhaut b. This structure is a Saturn-like ring that astronomers say may encircle the planet. Fomalhaut also is surrounded by a ring of material. The edge of this vast disk is shown in the background as the curving cloud-like feature that appears to intersect the 200-million-year-old star. Fomalhaut b lies 1.8 billion miles inside the disk's inner edge. The planet completes an orbit around Fomalhaut every 872 years.
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Credit: ESA, NASA, and L. Calcada (ESO for STScI)
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