Teide 1 was detected by
Rafael Rebolo López,
María R. Zapatero-Osorio and
Eduardo L. Martín in optical images obtained in January 1994 with the 0.80 meter diameter telescope (IAC-80) from the
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, located at the
Teide Observatory on the island of
Tenerife. Its cold nature was confirmed in December 1994 with the
William Herschel telescope (WHT) of the Roque de los Muchachos observatory in
La Palma. On May 22, 1995, the article reporting their discovery was submitted to the journal Nature, which published it on September 14, 1995. Meanwhile, a similar object, Calar 3, was discovered. The brown dwarf nature of Teide 1 and Calar 3 was independently confirmed in 1996 following spectroscopic observations with the 10-meter diameter telescope of the W. M. Keck observatory of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii. ==Gallery==