image: One of the discovery images of the planetary system obtained by the Keck II telescope using the adaptive optics system and NIRC2 Near-Infrared Imager. The rectangle indicates the field-of-view of the OSIRIS instrument. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the March 14, 2013, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The paper, by Quinn Konopacky at University of Toronto in Toronto, ON, Canada, and colleagues was titled, "Detection of Carbon Monoxide and Water Absorption Lines in an Exoplanet Atmosphere." view more
Credit: [Image courtesy of RC-HIA, C. Marois & Keck Observatory]