HR 8799 Planetary System (IMAGE)

Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics

HR 8799 Planetary System

Caption

This is one of the discovery images of the system obtained at the Keck II telescope using the adaptive optics system and NIRC2 Near-Infrared Imager. The rectangle indicates the field-of-view of the OSIRIS instrument.

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NRC-HIA, C. Marois and Keck Observatory

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