File:Gliese 623b- One of the Smallest Stars in the Universe (1994-54-252).jpg

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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture resolves, for the first time, one of the smallest stars in our Milky Way Galaxy.

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English: This NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture resolves, for the first time, one of the smallest stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. Called Gliese 623b or Gl623b, the diminutive star (right of center) is ten times less massive than the Sun and 60,000 times fainter. (If it were as far away as the Sun, it would be only eight times brighter than the full Moon).
Date 21 December 1994 (upload date)
Source Gliese 623b: One of the Smallest Stars in the Universe
Author

C. Barbieri (Univ. of Padua), and NASA/ESA;

Investigators: Cesare Barbieri, Gabriele Corrain, Roberto Ragazzoni (Univ. of Padua), Antonella Nota, Guido De Marchi, and Duccio Macchetto (ESA/STScI), and the FOC Instrument Definition Team.
Keywords
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Stars; Multiple Star Systems; Exoplanets

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Public domain This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use.
The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag.

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