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In May of 2009 astronomers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California announced a planet, VB 10b orbiting the nearby red dwarf star VB 10 . They used the 200" (5.08m) Hale telescope at the Palomar Observatory to detect this planet using the astrometry method. This is the first extrasolar planet to be discovered using this method.[1]

VB10b is a gas giant in the constellation of Aquila. It is approximately six times the mass of Jupiter and is about 20 light years away from Earth.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Planet-Hunting Method Succeeds at Last". NASA NEWS, NEWS RELEASE: 2009-090. Retrieved 2009-05-28.
  2. ^ McKee, Maggie (28 May 2009). "Exoplanet found by measuring star's sideways shift". New Scientist.
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