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HR 8799 c

HR 8799 is a star located 129 light-years (40 pc) away in the constellation of Pegasus. The designation HR 8799 is the star's identifier in the Bright Star Catalogue. In November 2008, Christian Marois of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics and his team announced that they had directly observed three planets (b,c and d) orbiting the star with the Keck and Gemini telescopes in Hawaii. The outer planet orbits just inside a dusty disk like the Solar Kuiper belt. It is the most massive disk known of any star within 300 light years of Earth, and there is room in the inner system for terrestrial planets.

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Uploaded on November 16, 2008
Taken on November 16, 2008