Gemini-Discovered World is Most Like Jupiter

J. Rameau (UdeM) and C. Marois (NRC Herzberg).

Gemini-Discovered World is Most Like Jupiter

Discovery image of 51 Eri b with the Gemini Planet Imager taken in the near-infrared light on December 18, 2014. The bright central star has been mostly removed by a hardware and software mask to enable the detection of the exoplanet one million times fainter.

About the Image

ID: gemini1505b
Type: Collage

About the Object

Name: 51 Eri b

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