Citizen scientists have discovered a new object orbiting a Sun-like star that had been missed by previous searches. The object is very distant from its host star--more than 1,600 times farther than the Earth is from the Sun--and is thought to be a large planet or a small brown dwarf, a type of object that is not massive enough to burn hydrogen like true stars. Details about the new world are published today in The Astrophysical Journal.
Citizen scientists find young-Jupiter-like object missed by previous exoplanet searches
Phys.org - 9 Dec 2021 19:51
Citizen scientists have discovered a new object orbiting a Sun-like star that had been missed by previous searches. The object is very distant from its host star--more than 1,600 times farther than the Earth is from the Sun--and is thought to be a large planet or a small brown dwarf, a type of object that is not massive enough to burn hydrogen like true stars. Details about the new world are published today in The Astrophysical Journal.
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