High-resolution observations shed more light on a peculiar brown dwarf system
Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...
Spacecraft finds a positively enormous planet 12 times Jupiter's mass
Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...
Gaia Just Found Two Massive Objects That Shouldn’t Exist – And Astronomers Are Stunned
Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...
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Wobbling stars reveal hidden companions in Gaia data
Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia's ability to ...
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Object 21 times bigger than Jupiter discovered. It's neither a planet, nor a star
Scientists also discovered a second planet, a brown dwarf orbiting another low-mass star. Gaia-5b orbits the Gaia-5 star, around 134 light-years away from Earth.
Scientists discover an object 21 times larger than Jupiter in space, but it's neither a star nor a planet
Scientists have found two unusual objects in deep space. One is so big it could fit 21 Jupiters inside but is neither a star nor a planet.
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Wobbling stars reveal giant companions
Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.
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Giant planet or 'failed star?' Newfound mystery world blurs the lines
By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new giant "planet," plus a new brown dwarf.