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Van Biesbroeck 8b is a brown dwarf star orbiting the star Van Biesbroeck 8 in the constellation Ophiuchus.When discovered in 1984 it was thought to be a planet.[citation needed] With a mass up to fifty times that of Jupiter it was classified as a brown dwarf star a gaseous object too large to be a planet yet with not enough mass for stellar ignition.It was not observed visually either by human eye or instruments but rather through astrometry (the measurement of very small perturbations in a star’s position due to the gravitational influence of another body) and infrared speckle interferometry.According to The Internet Encyclopedia of Science it is now generally accepted that VB 8b does not exist.