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English: WISE J104915.57-531906 is at the center of the larger image, which was taken by the NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). This is the closest star system discovered since 1916, and the third closest to our sun. It is 6.5 light-years away. At first, the light appeared to be from a single object, but a sharper image from the Gemini Observatory in Chile revealed that it was from a pair of cool star-like bodies called brown dwarfs.
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Source http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/multimedia/pia16872.html (see also http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16872)
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This image or video was catalogued by Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: PIA16872.

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