Planet 2M0437 (IMAGE)

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Planet 2M0437

Caption

Discovery image of the planet 2M0437, which lies about 100 times the Earth-Sun distance from its parent star. The image was taken with the Subaru Telescope on Maunakea. The much-brighter host star has been mostly removed, and the four “spikes'' are artifacts produced by the optics of the telescope.

Credit

Subaru Telescope and Gaidos, et al. (2021)

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