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Astrobiology

Large Planet Sighted Circling Sunlike Star

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
September 15, 2008

First Picture of Likely Planet around a Sun-like Star

“Scientists used the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawai’i to take images of the young star 1RXS J160929.1-210524 (which lies about 500 light-years from Earth) and a candidate companion of that star.

They also obtained spectra to confirm the nature of the companion, which has a mass about 8 times that of Jupiter, and lies roughly 330 times the Earth-Sun distance away from its star. The parent star is similar in mass to the Sun, but is much younger.”

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.