A research team led by a Penn State University astronomer has used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to discover and photograph one of the smallest objects ever seen around a normal star beyond our Sun. Weighing in at 12 times the mass of Jupiter, the object is small enough to be a planet. The conundrum is that it's also large enough to be a brown dwarf, a failed star.
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Credit: NASA, ESA and K. Luhman (Penn State University)
Position (2000): R.A. 11h 063m 29s.3 Dec. -77° 37' 34".0
Constellation: Chamaeleon