ERIS view of a companion candidate around the star V960 Mon
eso_eso2513h July 21st, 2025
Credit: ESO/A. Dasgupta
This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows a possible companion orbiting the young star V960 Mon. The image was captured with the VLT’s Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph (ERIS) instrument. The properties of the object are unknown: it could be a planet or a brown dwarf –– an object bigger than a planet that didn’t gain enough mass to shine as a star.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2513h/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso2513h
- Subject Category
- B.3.2.3 B.3.7.2.1
- Subject Name
- V960 Mon
- Credits
- ESO/A. Dasgupta
- Release Date
- 2025-07-21T14:00:00
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- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2513h/
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- Observation
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- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 3000.0, 2000.0
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- Rotation
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- FITS Header
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- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- https://www.eso.org
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso2513h
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso2513h.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2025-07-15T15:30:40+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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