Posted byShige Abe

May 1, 2005
Research Highlight
Uncertain Object Orbiting Brown Dwarf Confirmed as Giant Planet
NAI’s Ben Zuckerman of the UCLA team told UCLA, “The two objects – the giant planet and the young brown dwarf – are moving together; we have observed them for a year, and the new images essentially confirm our 2004 finding.” The international team recently published their discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Team lead Gael Chauvin of the European Southern Observatory declares this to be the first planet outside our Solar System ever to be imaged.