ESA’s Gaia finds a mysterious planet and brown dwarf (VIDEO)
Caption
Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia’s ability to sense the gravitational tug or ‘wobble’ the planet induces on a star. Both the planet and brown dwarf are orbiting low-mass stars, a scenario thought to be extremely rare.
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ESA/Gaia/DPAC/M. Marcussen
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