New Study Brings a Doubted Exoplanet 'Back from the Dead'
26 Oct 2012, 08:03 UTC
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A second look at data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reanimating the claim that the nearby star Fomalhaut hosts a massive exoplanet. The study suggests that the planet, named Fomalhaut b, is a rare and possibly unique object that is completely shrouded by dust.
Fomalhaut is the brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus and lies 25 light-years away.
"What we've seen from our analysis is that the object's minimum distance from the disk has hardly changed at all in two yea [...]
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