Title: Is this a Brown Dwarf or an Exoplanet?
Post by: Orstio on April 08, 2005, 04:55:39 PM
http://www.everything-science.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=126&Itemid=2
New Young Sub-stellar Companion Imaged with the VLT[/strong]| (http://www.everything-science.com//images/stories/phot-10a-05-preview.jpg) | | ESO PR Photo 10a/05 shows the VLT NACO image, taken in the Ks-band, of GQ Lupi. The feeble point of light to the right of the star is the newly found cold companion. It is 250 times fainter than the star itself and it located 0.73 arcsecond west. At the distance of GQ Lupi, this corresponds to a distance of roughly 100 astronomical units. North is up and East is to the left. |
Since the discovery in 1995 of the first planet orbiting a normal star other than the Sun, there are now more than 150 candidates of these so-called exoplanets known. Most of them are detected by i. . .
Title: Re: Is this a Brown Dwarf or an Exoplanet?
Post by: remcook on April 09, 2005, 12:44:04 AM
whatever it is, we're getting to know more and more about exoplanets!
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