July 30, 2010 - AstronomyNow
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Using the Near-Infrared Coronagraphic Imager (NICI) on the eight-metre Gemini-South Telescope in Chile, an international team of astronomers made a rare find: a very young brown dwarf in orbit around a 12 million year old Sun-like star, around 160 light years away. The star is so young that the astronomers say it still sports a belt of cold circumstellar gas.
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