Shown is Gliese 623, a visual binary star system. Gliese 623A, a red dwarf, is in the center of this Hubble Space Telescope image, and Gliese 623B is the smaller celestial object to the right. The arcs around Gliese 623A are artifacts of the image processing and are thus not real.

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Editor: Patrick Joiner, UCF Interdisciplinary Studies, Class of 2018
Senior Editor: M.M. Montgomery, Ph.D, UCF Physics