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Region of the Sky Around HD 106906b (HD 106906 b) — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

Exoplanets

Region of the Sky Around HD 106906b

December 10, 2020 · ESA/Hubble · HD 106906 b · Crux

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Pictured here is the region surrounding the exoplanet HD106906b. Located nearly 336 light-years from Earth, this 11-Jupiter-mass planet occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away and may be offering clues to something that might be much closer to home: a hypothesized distant member of our Solar System dubbed “Planet Nine.”

This view was created from images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2.