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Astronomers Image Lowest-mass Exoplanet Around a Sun-like Star
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Astronomers Image Lowest-mass Exoplanet Around a Sun-like Star

NASA / GSFC · 2017-12-08 · photograph (digital archive)

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Caption: Glowing a dark magenta, the newly discovered exoplanet GJ 504b weighs in with about four times Jupiter's mass, making it the lowest-mass planet ever directly imaged around a star like the sun. Credit: NASA/Goddard/S. Wiessinger Using infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, an international team of astronomers has imaged a giant planet around the bright star GJ 504.

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Credit lineAstronomers Image Lowest-mass Exoplanet Around a Sun-like Star. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001417.

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