Gemini-Discovered World is Most Like Jupiter
Discovery image of 51 Eri b with the Gemini Planet Imager taken in the near-infrared light on December 18, 2014. The bright central star has been mostly removed by a hardware and software mask to enable the detection of the exoplanet one million times fainter.
Credit:J. Rameau (UdeM) and C. Marois (NRC Herzberg).
About the Image
| Id: | gemini1505b |
| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | Aug. 13, 2015 |
| Related releases: | gemini1505 |
| Size: | 5554 x 5000 px |
About the Object
| Name: | 51 Eri b |
| Category: | Exoplanets Stars |
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| Band | Tele-scope |
|---|---|
| Gemini North GPI |