Image: Gliese 623
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Description: This Hubble Space Telescope picture resolves, for the first time, one of the smallest stars in our galaxy. Called Gliese 623b or Gl 623b, the diminutive star (right of center) is ten times less massive than the Sun and 60, 000 times fainter.
Title: Gliese 623
Credit: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9454a/
Author: C. Barbieri (Univ. of Padua), and NASA/ESA
Permission: NASA (Image/Video Use Policy: Space Telescope imagery is free for anyone to use)
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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