Unique follow-up observations carried out with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are providing important supporting evidence for the existence of a candidate planetary companion (five times the mass of Jupiter) to a relatively bright young dwarf star located 225 light-years away in the southern constellation Hydra.

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Unique follow-up observations carried out with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are providing important supporting evidence for the existence of a candidate planetary companion (five times the mass of Jupiter) to a relatively bright young dwarf star located 225 light-years away in the southern constellation Hydra. Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile first detected the planet candidate with infrared observations using...