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2M1207 2M1207A or 2MASS J12073346-3932539 is a brown dwarf located in the constellation Centaurus; a companion object 2M1207b may be the first extrasolar planetary-mass companion to be directly imaged and is the first discovered orbiting a brown dwarf.2M1207 was discovered during the course of the 2MASS infrared sky survey: hence the 2M in its name followed by its celestial coordinates.

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