esahubble_opo9533a September 14th, 1995
Credit: D. Golimowski (Johns Hopkins University), and NASA/ESA
This is a Hubble Space Telescope picture of one of the least massive and coolest stars even seen (upper right). It is a diminutive companion to the K dwarf star called GL 105A (also known as HD 16160) seen at lower left. The binary pair is located 27 light-years away in the constellation Cetus.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9533a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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