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Gemini Detects Something "Cool" in Our Neighborhood:

Closest Known Brown Dwarf has a Companion

Infrared detection image of Epsilon Indi Bb

While searching for planet-sized bodies that might accompany the nearby star system Epsilon Indi, astronomers using the Gemini South telescope in Chile made a related but unexpected detection.

"Epsilon Indi Ba is the closest confirmed brown dwarf to our solar system," says Dr. Gordon Walker (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada). Dr. Walker explains, "With the detection of Epsilon Indi Bb, we now know that Epsilon Indi Ba has a close companion that appears to be another, even cooler brown dwarf. One certainty is that the Epsilon Indi system is even more interesting than we previously thought."

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The first Gemini/PHOENIX infrared detection image of Epsilon Indi Bb. Additional images and artwork/illustrations are downloadable here.

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