From Washington, D.C., at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society
NOT QUITE A PLANET. Arrow indicates a brown dwarf, or failed star. The brown dwarf weighs about 65 times Jupiter’s mass. Liu, et al
PLANETS IN THE MAKING? Proto-planetary disk seen edge-on through an adaptive optics system on the Gemini North telescope. The dusty disk glows at near-infrared-light wavelengths, heated by radiation from a hidden star at its center.
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