A gas giant has been added to the short list of exoplanets discovered through direct imaging. It is located around GU Psc, a star three times less massive than the Sun and located in the constellation Pisces. The international research team, led by Marie-Ève Naud, a PhD student in the Department of Physics at the Université de Montréal, was able to find this planet by combining observations from the the Gemini Observatories, the Observatoire Mont-Mégantic (OMM), the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) and the W.M. Keck Observatory.
Odd planet, so far from its star
A gas giant has been
added to the short list of exoplanets discovered through direct imaging.
It is located around GU Psc, a star three times less massive than the
Sun and located in the constellation Pisces. The international research
team, led by Marie-Ève Naud, a PhD student in the Department of Physics
at the Université de Montréal, was able to find this planet by combining
observations from the the Gemini Observatories, the Observatoire
Mont-Mégantic (OMM), the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) and the
W.M. Keck Observatory.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-05-odd-planet-star.html#jCp
A gas giant has been
added to the short list of exoplanets discovered through direct imaging.
It is located around GU Psc, a star three times less massive than the
Sun and located in the constellation Pisces. The international research
team, led by Marie-Ève Naud, a PhD student in the Department of Physics
at the Université de Montréal, was able to find this planet by combining
observations from the the Gemini Observatories, the Observatoire
Mont-Mégantic (OMM), the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) and the
W.M. Keck Observatory.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-05-odd-planet-star.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-05-odd-planet-star.html#jCp
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