Image: A Planet as Big as Its Star
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Description: This artist's concept shows the smallest star known to host a planet. The planet, called VB 10b, was discovered using astrometry, a method in which the wobble induced by a planet on its star is measured precisely on the sky.
Title: A Planet as Big as Its Star
Credit: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/A-VB10b-20090528.html
Author: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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