Gaia Just Found Two Massive Objects That Shouldn’t Exist – And Astronomers Are Stunned
Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...
High-resolution observations shed more light on a peculiar brown dwarf system
Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...
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Gaia-4b/5b (IMAGE)
Gaia-4b is a planet orbiting the star called Gaia-4, around 244 light-years away. Gaia-4b is about twelve times more massive ...
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Gaia-5b animation (VIDEO)
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 ...
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Evidence of Orbital Motion in the Binary Brown Dwarf Kelu‐1AB
Given the available data, we are able to constrain the inclination of the system to >81° and the orbital period to ≳40 yr. Basri, G. 1998, in ASP Conf. Ser. 134, Brown Dwarfs and Extrasolar Planets, ...
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Gaia was right. It did find a planet.
The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion ...