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Julian Dossett

The Subaru Telescope just made its 1st discoveries: a 'failed star' and an exoplanet

A heat map with a purple background and yellow dots showing an exoplanet.

While our ability to view distant worlds with advanced telescopes has come a long way in a short time, we can still only photograph a tiny fraction of the planets throughout our cosmos with the technology we have today.

However, astronomers in Hawaii just spotted a pair of exciting discoveries — a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf — using Japan’s Subaru Telescope, which sits atop Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii.

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