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Sirius_A_and_B_Hubble_photo.jpg (369 × 403 pixels, file size: 179 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
English: This Hubble Space Telescope image shows Sirius A, the brightest star in our nighttime sky, along with its faint, tiny stellar companion, Sirius B. Astronomers overexposed the image of Sirius A [at centre] so that the dim Sirius B [tiny dot at lower left] could be seen. The cross-shaped diffraction spikes and concentric rings around A*, and the small ring around Sirius B, are artifacts produced within the telescope's imaging system. The two stars revolve around each other every 50 years. Sirius A, only 8.6 light-years from Earth, is the fifth closest star system known. The image was taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2.
Date
Source http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0516a/
Author NASA, ESA, H. Bond (STScI), and M. Barstow (University of Leicester)
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    derivative
  • 80px square for template
    80px square for template
  • Placed pointer to Sirius B
    Placed pointer to Sirius B

Licensing

Public domain
This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use.

The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org.

For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag.


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Captions

Sirius A along with its faint, tiny stellar companion, Sirius B (lower left).

Items portrayed in this file

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Sirius A

Sirius B

inception

15 October 2003

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image/jpeg

File history

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Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current09:11, 19 October 2019Thumbnail for version as of 09:11, 19 October 2019369 × 403 (179 KB)BevinKaconReverted to version as of 19:39, 25 August 2010 (UTC) actual size from source
06:26, 22 January 2016Thumbnail for version as of 06:26, 22 January 20162,209 × 2,410 (1.43 MB)PlanetUserhigher resolution (modified from http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/pl_original/heic0516a.tif)
19:39, 25 August 2010Thumbnail for version as of 19:39, 25 August 2010369 × 403 (179 KB)LobStoRprogressive JPEG generated from .TIFF at quality setting 100
22:06, 28 August 2009Thumbnail for version as of 22:06, 28 August 2009369 × 403 (143 KB)TryphonReverted to version as of 12:42, 25 December 2005: original size; anything bigger is just blown-up from this image.
18:34, 12 December 2007Thumbnail for version as of 18:34, 12 December 20071,280 × 1,398 (160 KB)DENkerhigher quality
12:42, 25 December 2005Thumbnail for version as of 12:42, 25 December 2005369 × 403 (143 KB)SuperborsukThe image of Sirius A and white dwarf Sirius B taken by Hubble Space Telescope. Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2005/36/image/a

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