Image: WISE J0830+2837 Spitzer

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Description: The cold planetary-mass object WISE J0830+2837 is one of the coldest objects ever discovered in space with a temperature of 300 to 350 K (27 to 77°C; 80 to 170°F). It is about 36.5 light years away from the solar system. WISE J0830+2837 is the orange object marked with two white lines. The bright star on the upper left is the red giant 2MASS J08302442+2838120, which is located much further away than WISE J0830+2837. Instrument: IRAC Filters: 3.6, 4.5 Mircon Observation date: 2019-02-21 Image Credit: NASA/JPL Spitzer Space Telescope, Jacqueline Faherty et al. proposal id: 14076 PI: Faherty, Jacqueline

link proposal: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018sptz.prop14076F/abstract
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