File:Young star with planetary companion (noao0605a).jpg

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An artist’s rendition shows a planet orbiting a very young, active star pocked with dark star spots and speckled with flares and other surface activity.

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English: An artist’s rendition shows a planet orbiting a very young, active star pocked with dark star spots and speckled with flares and other surface activity. A team led by a University of Florida astronomer announced the discovery of the planet orbiting a star just 600 million years old, one of the youngest stars ever found with a planetary companion at the January, 2006 AAS meeting. In a development expected to dramatically speed the hunt for planets in coming years, the astronomers used a new, more effective planet-finding instrument attached to a telescope at the Tucson-based Kitt Peak National Observatory to find the planet, located about 100 light years away in the constellation Virgo.
Date 11 January 2006 (upload date)
Source Young star with planetary companion
Author P. Marenfeld and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
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