MXPlank Documentary on Nuclear Physics The graphic shows the polar view of planet Gliese 436b around its host star. The long, comet-like tail resulting from the atmosphere getting ripped off it is shown as well. This image, from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope ’s NGC 1052-DF2 resides about 65 million light-years away in the NGC 1052 Group, which is dominated by a massive elliptical galaxy called NGC 1052 The top view, taken by NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the first visible-light image of a dust ring around the nearby, bright young star Fomalhaut (HD 216956). This is an excerpt of the Hubble Space Telescope field of view in the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS) Recent, sophisticated software processing of the NICMOS data removes most of the scattered starlight to reveal three planets orbiting HR 8799