
This artist diagram compares our solar system below to the VB 10 star system. Astronomers successfully used the astrometry planet-hunting method for the first time to discover a gas planet, called VB 10b, around a very tiny star, VB 10.
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PIA12014
Date Created
May 28, 2009
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JPL
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