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A team of astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to capture new images of a "super-Jupiter" planet – the closest planet of its huge size that scientists have found.
Here’s how it works. The super-Jupiter Kappa Andromedae b, shown here in an artist's rendering has a mass about 13 times Jupiter's. (Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger) ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A super Jupiter has been spotted around a neighboring star by the Webb Space Telescope — and it has a super orbit. The planet is roughly the same diameter as ...
JWST directly images a surprise super-Jupiter planet Epsilon Indi Ab is the coldest and oldest exoplanet imaged to date, revealing a potentially intriguing mix of molecules in its atmosphere.
Super-Jupiters in particular tend to have more eccentric orbits than smaller, more Jupiter-like gas giants do, which suggests they formed in more turbulent star systems, where near-misses and full ...