Extreme Planets Artist Concept, JPL/NASA images
Summary
This artist concept depicts the pulsar planet system discovered by Aleksander Wolszczan in 1992. Wolszczan used the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico to find three planets circling a pulsar called PSR B1257+12.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Free Space artwork and designs. Since its creation in 1958, NASA has been taking copyright-free pictures of the Earth, the Moon, the planets, and other astronomical objects inside and outside our Solar System. Under United States copyright law, works created by the U.S. federal government or its agencies, such as NASA are in public domain and cannot be copyrighted. NASA pictures are legally in the public domain.
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Tags
spitzer space telescope
jpl
jet propulsion laboratory
extreme
planets
artist
concept
high resolution
astronomy
universe
nasa
Date
05/04/2006
in collections
Location
California Institute of Technology - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
,
34.20139, -118.17341
Source
NASA
Link
Copyright info
Public Domain Dedication (CC0)