SPECULOOS with binary brown dwarf (IMAGE)

University of Birmingham

SPECULOOS with binary brown dwarf

Caption

The Illustration is an artist view of one of the SPECULOOS telescopes, with the eclipsing binary brown dwarf in the sky. The third red dot, is a third nearby brown dwarf, which is also part of the same system. The book on the side shows the data that led to the discovery. On the left page is the eclipse captured by SPECULOOS while the right page shows the data from Keck and the VLT.

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University of Birmingham / Amanda J. Smith.

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