Star in the constellation Camelopardalis
This article is about the star. For the computer from the 'One Laptop Per Child' initiative, see
OLPC XO-3.
XO-3 is a star in the constellation Camelopardalis. The star has a magnitude of 10 and is not visible to the naked eye but is visible through a small telescope.[3] A search for a binary companion star using adaptive optics at the MMT Observatory was negative.[7]
Planetary system
In 2007 the gas giant exoplanet XO-3b was discovered by the XO Telescope using the transit method. This object may be classed as brown dwarf because of its high mass.[3][8]
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