First Image of an Exoplanet Food Fox (Print Only) by Laura

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First Image of an Exoplanet Food Fox (Print Only) by LauraThis composite image shows an exoplanet (the red spot on the lower left), orbiting the brown dwarf 2M1207 (centre). 2M1207b is the first exoplanet directly imaged and the first discovered orbiting a brown dwarf (see the press release). It was imaged the first time by the VLT in 2004. Its planetary identity and characteristics were confirmed after one year of observations in 2005. 2M1207b is a Jupiter like planet, 5 times more massive than Jupiter. It