Astronomers image lowest-mass exoplanet around a sun-like star




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. Several times the mass of Jupiter and similar in size, the new world, dubbed GJ 504b, is the lowest-mass planet ever detected around a star like the sun using direct imaging techniques.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-08/nsf...

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