The smaller object is the Gliese 229B
brown dwarf
orbiting the star
Gliese 229
, which is located in the constellation
Lepus
about 19 light years from Earth. Gliese 229B is about 20 to 50 times the mass of Jupiter.
The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the
Soviet
/
Russian space agency
, and other non-American space agencies. These are
not necessarily
in the public domain.
The
SOHO (ESA & NASA)
joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use.
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