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Written by spacetravel.org
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Sunday, 22 May 2005 22:05 |
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Frédéric Pont and his team at the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland have found that the star OGLE-TR-122 is being transited by another star of 96 Jupiter masses with a diameter only about 13 percent larger than Jupiter's. Pont says that this is the smallest normal star whose diameter has been directly measured.
OGLE stands for Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, a project in which the 1.3 meter Warsaw Telescope in Chile is being used to monitor the brightness of 200 million stars.
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