Dear subscribers,

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered a rather unusual
system, in which two planet-size stars, of different colours, orbit each other.
Its existence proves that the brown dwarf came out almost unaltered from an
episode in which it was swallowed by a red giant.

Read further in ESO 28/06 at

http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-28-06.html

The cast of exoplanets has an extraordinary new member. Using ESO's telescopes,
astronomers have discovered a seven-Jupiter-mass companion to an object that is
itself only twice as hefty. Both objects have masses similar to those of
extra-solar giant planets, but they are not in orbit around a star - instead
they appear to circle each other. The existence of such a double system puts
strong constraints on formation theories of free-floating planetary mass
objects.

Read all details in ESO 29/06 at

http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-29-06.html

With kind regards,

The ESO Public Affairs Dept.