# Keck adaptive-optics images of KIC 8462852 and its companion

> Images that resolve the faint star about 2 arcseconds away and show it moving with KIC 8462852: a bound M dwarf about 880 au from it.

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# Keck adaptive-optics images of KIC 8462852 and its companion

RecordingpublisherAstrometry published March 2021

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**Not kept here.** This copy isn't ours to show. [See it where it's published](https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abdd33).

Images that resolve the faint star about 2 arcseconds away and show it moving with KIC 8462852: a bound M dwarf about 880 au from it.

Pearce and colleagues, 2021. publisher

## Copies 1

**Document** Pearce and colleagues · doi.org · 2021-03 · publisherPrimary source: [Boyajian's Star B: The Co-moving Companion to KIC 8462852 A](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D8E6Z5650DJ/boyajians-star-b-the-co-moving-companion-to-kic-8462852-a)2 steps from the original

[Where it's published](https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abdd33)

## Where it is kept

[W. M. Keck Observatory, Maunakea, Hawaii](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D8E72JJ32DF/w-m-keck-observatory-maunakea-hawaii) · Observatory

## Sources 1

- [Boyajian's Star B: The Co-moving Companion to KIC 8462852 A](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D8E6Z5650DJ/boyajians-star-b-the-co-moving-companion-to-kic-8462852-a)_SRC_

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Keck adaptive-optics images of KIC 8462852 and its companion [Artifact ART0D8E7S1A6B82]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0D8E7S1A6B82
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