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Artist view of planetary system around Gliese 581

auteur: Don Dixon/Novapix

référence: a-exo99-30021

Image Size 300 DPI: 17 * 10 cm

As we approach the planet Gliese 851c, its parent star looms nearly a dozen times bigger than our sun appears from Earth. An inner planet roughly the size of Saturn transits the solar disk, close enough to show significant detail without a telescope.

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Keywords for this photo:

2007 - 3.6M - ALIEN - ALIEN EARTH - ASTRONOMY - EARTH-LIKE PLANET - EXOPLANET - EXTRASOLAR PLANET - EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE - GL 581C - GLIESE 581 - GLIESE 581B - GLIESE 581C - HABITABLE ZONE - ILLUSTRATION - LA SILLA - LIBRA - MAYOR MICHEL - PEPE FRANCESCO - PLANET - QUELOZ DIDIER - RED DWARF - STAR - WATER -