June 30, 2010 - AstronomyNow
First reported in 2008, an exoplanet system discovered orbiting a Sun-like star via direct imaging has been confirmed to host an eight Jupiter-mass planet orbiting its star over 300 times farther than Earth is from our Sun.
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The discovery came thanks to the high resolution adaptive optics set-up at the Gemini Observatory, which enabled Lafreniere's team to take direct images and collect spectra of the system that displayed absorption features due to water vapor, carbon monoxide and molecular hydrogen in the planet’s atmosphere...
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