Brown Dwarfs in our Backyard
The third closest star system to the sun, called WISE J104915.57-531906, center of large image, which was taken by NASA WISE. It appeared to be a single object, but a sharper image from Gemini Observatory, revealed that it was binary star system.
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NASA ID
PIA17992
Date Created
March 7, 2014
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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