by Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have imaged a Jupiter-sized, still-forming planet around the orange dwarf star PDS 70.
This is the first time that an exoplanet has been directly imaged in the ultraviolet (UV).
PDS 70 is a K7-type pre-main sequence star located 370 light-years away in the constellation of Centaurus.
Also known as V* V1032 Cen and IRAS 14050-4109, the star is only 5.4 million years old.
It hosts two actively forming planets, PDS 70b and c, and a huge circumstellar disk of dust and gas in which a large region from 20 to 40 AU is cleared of dust.
PDS 70b is located within the disk gap at a distance of about 21 AU from the star, similar to the orbit of Uranus in our Solar System.
PDS 70c is located near the outer edge of the disk gap at 34.5 AU from the star, similar to Neptune’s distance from our Sun.
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This is the first time that an exoplanet has been directly imaged in the ultraviolet (UV).
PDS 70 is a K7-type pre-main sequence star located 370 light-years away in the constellation of Centaurus.
Also known as V* V1032 Cen and IRAS 14050-4109, the star is only 5.4 million years old.
It hosts two actively forming planets, PDS 70b and c, and a huge circumstellar disk of dust and gas in which a large region from 20 to 40 AU is cleared of dust.
PDS 70b is located within the disk gap at a distance of about 21 AU from the star, similar to the orbit of Uranus in our Solar System.
PDS 70c is located near the outer edge of the disk gap at 34.5 AU from the star, similar to Neptune’s distance from our Sun.
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