First Directly Imaged Planet Confirmed Around Sun-Like Star
Proper motion plots from Gemini observations of 1RXS J160929.1-210524 confirming that the star and planet are a bound system
Credit:Gemini Observatory/AURA/David Lafrenière (University of Montreal),Ray Jayawardhana (University of Toronto), and Marten van Kerkwijk (University of Toronto)
About the Image
Id: | gemini1008c |
Type: | Chart |
Release date: | June 29, 2010, 8 p.m. |
Related releases: | gemini1008 |
Size: | 1488 x 1191 px |
About the Object
Category: | Exoplanets |