First Directly Imaged Planet Confirmed Around Sun-Like Star

(top) Comparison of the planet spectrum (black) with a slightly warmer, more massive free floating brown dwarf in the Upper Scorpius association (red, from Lodieu et al. 2008). (bottom) Comparison with a model spectrum of temperature 1800 K and low surface gravity (red, from DRIFT PHOENIX models, Witte et al. 2009, Helling et al. 2008).

Credit:

Gemini Observatory/AURA/David Lafrenière (University of Montreal),Ray Jayawardhana (University of Toronto), and Marten van Kerkwijk (University of Toronto)

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Release date:June 29, 2010, 8 p.m.
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