![]() “I thought that there might be no planets around the stars, which would be interesting, but there might also be potentially plenty of planets around them, which would be even more interesting.” “I kind of went into it with a blank mind sort of speak,” Jonson tells Inverse. Here’s the background - Markus Jonson and his team were using the SPHERE exoplanet imager on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Paranal, Chile to survey the star system. It marks the first discovery of a gas giant planet around a star that is more than three times the mass of the Sun, and around stars this hot. The astronomers who discovered the planet detail their findings in a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The newly-discovered gas giant planet is 11 times as massive as Jupiter, with a vast orbit that’s 100 times wider than that of Jupiter’s - and strangely, it most likely formed there. ![]() It’s so weird that it’s challenging scientists’ ideas about how planets form and evolve.ī Centauri is a double star system that lies 325 light years away from Earth. A massive, odd planet was just discovered orbiting around two bright stars in the southern sky. ![]()
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