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Surface map of Luhman 16B recreated from VLT observations

ESO's Very Large Telescope has been used to create the first ever map of the weather on the surface of the nearest brown dwarf to Earth. An international team has made a chart of the dark and light features on WISE J104915.57-531906.1B, which is informally known as Luhman 16B and is one of two recently discovered brown dwarfs forming a pair only six light-years from the Sun.

The figure shows the object at six equally spaced times as it rotates once on its axis.

Crediti:

ESO/I. Crossfield

A proposito dell'immagine

Identificazione:eso1404a
Tipo:Simulazione
Data di pubblicazione:Mercoledì 29 Gennaio 2014 19:00
Notizie relative:eso1404
Dimensione:3508 x 2480 px

A proposito delll'oggetto

Nome:WISE J104915.57-531906.1
Tipo:Milky Way : Star : Type : Brown Dwarf
Distanza:6 Anni luce
Categoria:Stars

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