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NASA detects Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a star 80 light-years away – EconoTimes
NASA has spotted many exoplanets over time, but its recent finding was a first. For the first time, the agency has detected a giant planet orbiting a much smaller corpse of a star.
The data from NASAs Spitzer Space…
NASA has spotted many exoplanets over time, but its recent finding was a first. For the first time, the agency has detected a giant planet orbiting a much smaller corpse of a star.
The data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite or TESS revealed a white dwarf star 80 found 80 light-years away from Earth. The star is formally referred to as WD 1856+534 and is thought to be unusually small for a star, only 40 percent bigger than Earth. However, that was …
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