Dwarf companion to EPIC 206011496 detected by astronomers

On: September 20, 2018

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), European astronomers have uncovered the presence of an M-dwarf around the star EPIC 206011496. The newly found object is more than 60 percent less massive than our sun and is bounded to the primary star. The finding is reported in a paper published September 10 on arXiv.org.

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