Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Planet Or Failed Star? One Of Smallest Stellar Companions Seen By Hubble


Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have photographed one of the smallest objects ever seen around a normal star beyond our Sun. Weighing in at 12 times the mass of Jupiter, the object is small enough to be a planet. The riddle is that it is also large enough to be a brown dwarf, a failed star.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060908171058.htm

-Ryan

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