“Last week, it was announced that a giant exoplanet was discovered! What makes this planet so unique? Amy explains.” – YT
“For the first time, astronomers have announced the discovery of an exoplanet that they believe could resemble our solar system’s ‘ice giants’ Uranus or Neptune.
“In the study, published in the The Astrophysical Journal, Radek Poleski and his team from Ohio State University identified the alien world orbiting a star in a binary system some 25,000 light-years away in the direction of Sagittarius.
“The binary system is composed of a star approximately two-thirds the mass of our sun, whereas its stellar partner is only one-sixth of a solar mass. The ‘exo-Uranus’ orbits the larger star.”
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