Voice of America: Scientists Discover 'Super Jupiter'

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Scientists Discover 'Super Jupiter' Nov 20th 2012, 15:53 Astronomers have discovered what they're calling a "super Jupiter" orbiting a star 170 light years away from earth. According to astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, the newly discovered gas giant planet has 13 times the mass of Jupiter and orbits the star Kappa Andromedae, which has a mass 2.5 times larger than our Sun. Most exoplanets are discovered through indirect detection such as the so-called transit method, in which a small change in the ... Media files: DCD4A0B2-3A34-42EE-9207-ECE84CDD6A9B_cx0_cy11_cw0_w800_r1.jpg?nocache=1 (image/jpeg, 0 MB)

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