Gaia-5b animation (VIDEO)

Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)

Caption

Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, scientists have found a brown dwarf, named Gaia-5b, orbiting a low-mass star. Gaia-5b orbits the star Gaia-5, around 134 light-years away from Earth, and has a mass of around 21 Jupiters. This animation visualizes a portion of Gaia-5b’s orbital motion as determined by Gaia’s astrometric data. The star and planet are not to scale.

Credit

ESA/Gaia/DPAC/M. Marcussen

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