Record-Breaking Photo Reveals a Planet-Sized Object as Cool as the Earth (IMAGE)

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Record-Breaking Photo Reveals a Planet-Sized Object as Cool as the Earth

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This is an artist's impression of the coldest imaged companion, named WD 0806-661 B, (right foreground) orbiting at a large distance from a white dwarf -- the collapsed-core remnant of a dying star.

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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Francis Reddy

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