Kaptyen's Star Planets (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

Kaptyen's Star Planets

Caption

Kapteyn's star and its planets likely come from a dwarf galaxy now merged with the Milky Way. The bottom right panel shows characteristic streams of stars resulting from such a galactic merging event.

Credit

The image is courtesy of Victor Robles, James Bullock, and Miguel Rocha at University of California Irvine and Joel Primack at University of California Santa Cruz.

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