esahubble_opo9819f May 28th, 1998
Credit: S. Terebey (Extrasolar Research Corp.) and NASA/ESA
Originally suspected to be the first directly detected planet outside our Solar System follow up observations have shown that the object is most likely a background star whose light is has been dimmed and reddened by interstellar dust. Even newer observations have now brought the phantom planet back from oblivion. It seems that TMR-1C is a protoplanet, located about 1 000 AU from its host stars, which are in the center of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture. However the true nature of TMR-1C is still unclear and needs further investigation.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9819f/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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