This image, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO is a partner, shows a close-up view on the moon-forming disc surrounding PDS 70c, a young Jupiter-like gas giant nearly 400 light-years away. It shows this planet and its disc centre-front, with the larger circumstellar ring-like disc taking up most of the right-hand side of the image. The dusty circumplanetary disc is as large as the Sun-Earth distance and has enough mass to form up to three satellites the size of the Moon.
Credit:
ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Benisty et al.
About the Image
| Id: | eso2111c |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 22 July 2021, 14:00 |
| Related releases: | eso2111 |
| Size: | 1266 x 840 px |
About the Object
| Name: | PDS 70c |
| Type: | Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Planetary System |
| Constellation: | Centaurus |
| Category: | Exoplanets |
Coordinates
| Position (RA): | 14 8 10.09 |
| Position (Dec): | -41° 23′ 52.94″ |
| Field of view: | 0.01 x 0.01 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is -0.0° left of vertical |
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