# Fomalhaut planet

- By: ESA, NASA, and L. Calcada (ESO for STScI)
- Date: 2008-11-13
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: Hubble Directly Observes Planet Orbiting Fomalhaut
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fomalhaut_planet.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/4/46/Fomalhaut_planet.jpg/1920px-Fomalhaut_planet.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This illustration shows the newly discovered planet, Fomalhaut b, orbiting its sun, Fomalhaut. A structure comprised mostly of brown and gold colors surrounds Fomalhaut b. This structure is a Saturn-like ring that astronomers say may encircle the planet. Fomalhaut also is surrounded by a ring of material. The edge of this vast disk is shown in the background as the curving cloud-like feature that appears to intersect the 200-million-year-old star. Fomalhaut b lies 1.8 billion miles inside the disk's inner edge. The planet completes an orbit around Fomalhaut every 872 years.