Exoplanet Three Times More Massive Than Jupiter Discovered 1,200 Light-years Away
Astronomers have discovered a planet three times more massive than Jupiter in a star system located around 1,250 light-years away from our own.
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Tau.Neutrino said:
Exoplanet Three Times More Massive Than Jupiter Discovered 1,200 Light-years AwayAstronomers have discovered a planet three times more massive than Jupiter in a star system located around 1,250 light-years away from our own.
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> The distant world, known as Kepler-88 d, is the most massive in the star system, which contains two other planets, according to a study published in The Astronomical Journal. It orbits its star every four years in an elliptical path.
> A team of scientists led by the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy discovered the planet after six years of observations with the W. M. Keck Observatory, located on the dormant volcano Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
Nice! I went looking for these in Kepler data and didn’t find any. I’m particularly impressed that the Keck telescope found that the orbit is elliptical, because Kepler data can’t tell you that.