A Planet-like Companion Growing up in the Fast Lane
Gemini North adaptive optics image of both binary systems 2M J044144A/B (bottom) and 2M J044145A/B (top) as imaged using the Gemini Near-Infrared Imager (NIRI) with the Altair adaptive optics system. The Gemini data was used to discover the companion to 2M J044145A which is believed to be associated with this system making it a likely quadruple system.
Credit:Gemini Observatory/AURA and K. Todorov and K. Luhman (Pennsylvania State University)
About the Image
| Id: | gemini1005c |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | April 6, 2010, 8 p.m. |
| Related releases: | gemini1005 |
| Size: | 600 x 600 px |
About the Object
| Name: | 2M J044144A/B, 2M J044145A/B |
| Category: | Stars |
