Planets and Moons  Universe  ID: 11026

HD 189733b Exoplanet Animation

The exoplanet HD 189733b lies so near its star that it completes an orbit every 2.2 days. In late 2011, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope found that the planet's upper atmosphere was streaming away at speeds exceeding 300,000 mph. Just before the Hubble observation, NASA's Swift detected the star blasting out a strong X-ray flare, one powerful enough to blow away part of the planet's atmosphere.
 

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http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/exoplanet-atmosphere.html


Credits

Michael Lentz (USRA): Lead Animator
Scott Wiessinger (USRA): Producer
Francis Reddy (Syneren Technologies): Writer
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab

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Mission:
Swift

This item is part of this series:
Astrophysics Animations

Goddard TV Tape:
G2012-067 -- Evaporating Exoplanet

Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> X-ray
SVS >> Hubble Space Telescope
SVS >> Astrophysics
SVS >> Space
SVS >> Swift
SVS >> Star
NASA Science >> Planets and Moons
NASA Science >> Universe
SVS >> Exoplanet