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Astronomers capture super Jupiter
dethalternateDate: Tuesday, 20-November-2012, 10:48 AM | Message # 1
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Discovery: Snapped by the Subaru telescope this is the near infrared image of the Kappa Andromedae star system

A new planet labelled a 'super-Jupiter' has been spotted by astronomers who believe the find could challenge ideas about planet formations.

Scientists have long debated the prospect of large stars given birth to planets in a rotating disk of dust and gas but the new find suggest this could now be true.

Captured by Japan's Subaru 8-metre telescope the planet, thought to be 13 times larger than our solar system's biggest planet, Jupiter, the object was spotted orbiting a star called Kappa Andromedae.


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