Gaia-5b animation

Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, scientists have found a brown dwarf, named Gaia-5b, orbiting a low-mass star. Gaia-5b orbits the star Gaia-5, around 134 light-years away from Earth, and has a mass of around 21 Jupiters. This animation visualises a portion of Gaia-5b’s orbital motion as determined by Gaia’s astrometric data. The star and planet are not to scale.