Spacecraft finds a positively enormous planet 12 times Jupiter's mass
Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...
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Giant planet or 'failed star?' Newfound mystery world blurs the lines
"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...
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Object 21 times bigger than Jupiter discovered. It's neither a planet, nor a star
Scientists also discovered a second planet, a brown dwarf orbiting another low-mass star. Gaia-5b orbits the Gaia-5 star, ...
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Wobbling stars reveal giant companions
Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.
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Giant super-Jupiter planets could have very chaotic pasts
When two giant planets collide, an even bigger world may be born. Based on new simulations, scientists believe that giant gas planets across the universe can often collide and merge into even ...
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Not all Hot Jupiters orbit solo
It contains a Hot Jupiter that orbits its star in 7 days and 3 hours; a Super-Earth (a rocky planet 6 times the mass of the Earth) that orbits the star in just 24 hours and 17 minutes; and a giant ...
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Not all Hot Jupiters orbit solo, observations suggest
It contains a Hot Jupiter that orbits its star in seven days and three hours; a Super-Earth (a rocky planet six times the mass of the Earth) that orbits the star in just 24 hours and 17 minutes ...