Massive planet that would dwarf Jupiter has been discovered in our galactic neighborhood

Massive planet that would dwarf Jupiter has been discovered in our galactic neighborhood

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https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2020/02/20/massive-planet-that-would-dwarf-jupiter-has-been-discovered-in-our-galactic-neighborhood/

Just 330 light-years from Earth, a massive baby planet named 2MASS 1155–7919 b has recently been born from a cloud of gas and dust. Researchers from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) found this rare young gas giant, 10 times larger than Jupiter, orbiting far from its stellar companion— 600 times further from its parent star than the Earth is from the Sun.

The star around which this planet orbits is also extremely young, having formed just five million years ago, roughly one-thousandth the age of the Sun.