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Hubble's Infrared Eyes Home In On Suspected Extrasolar Planet.

Publication: PR Newswire
Publication Date: 10-JAN-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is providing important supporting evidence for the existence of a candidate planetary companion to a relatively bright young brown dwarf star located 225 light-years away in the southern constellation Hydra.

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile detected the planet candidate in April 2004. They used infrared observations and adaptive optics to sharpen their view. The VLT astronomers spotted a faint companion object to the brown dwarf star 2MASSWJ 1207334- 393254 (also known as 2M1207). The...

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