Newly Discovered Giant Planet Slingshots Around its Star

August 27, 2019 • by Staff Writer

Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory, along with colleagues at Caltech and elsewhere, have discovered a planet three times the mass of Jupiter that travels on a long, egg-shaped path around its star.


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