they studied its movements…

Astronomers spotted an exoplanet like none other that they have ever seen.  They are calling it a super Jupiter.  This is mostly because it is a gas giant and resembles our own in a lot of ways.  Btw they still don’t know how that giant red storm keeps going.  That however is for another post and fascinating none the less.  Here are more details on this bizarre exoplanet:

This ESOCast video shows how astronomers, for the first time, were able to directly follow the motion of an exoplanet as it moved from one side of its host star to the other. The planet has the smallest orbit so far of all directly imaged exoplanets, lying almost as close to its parent star as Saturn is to the Sun. Scientists believe that it may have formed in a similar way to the giant planets in the Solar System. Because the star is so young, this discovery proves that gas giant planets can form within discs in only a few million years, a short time in cosmic terms.

Let’s check out what this crazy exoplanet might look like in the video on page 2

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