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What is the Newly Discovered Super-Jupiter?

2024 • 2min • Science

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An IIT Kanpur professor and his team of international astronomers have discovered a new planet orbiting a star 12 lights years away from our solar system. Naming it super-Jupiter, after our very own Jupiter, scientists say it is the first directly imaged matured exoplanet and could perhaps also be the coldest of them all. What is this newly found exoplanet? Why is it called super-Jupiter? News9 Plus decodes for you.