Astronomers discover giant alien planet 35 times more massive than Earth hiding in a known star system
https://www.space.com/astronomy/astronomers-discover-giant-alien-planet-35-times-more-massive-than-earth-hiding-in-a-known-star-system
Astronomers discover giant alien planet 35 times more massive than Earth hiding in a known star system
https://www.space.com/astronomy/astronomers-discover-giant-alien-planet-35-times-more-massive-than-earth-hiding-in-a-known-star-system
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34x earth mass. Wouldn’t the gravity be insane on that planet?
Hiding? Was it playing peekaboo? It’s a planet they don’t hide
Every planet is massive if you really think about it
It’s not in our solar system, guys. This planet is one of Kepler-139’s, it doesn’t transit its star as viewed from Earth so it had to be observed indirectly via its effects on the orbits of the planets on either side of its orbit. That being said, it IS in Kepler-139’s habitable zone with a year about 355 Earth days long.
“35 times more massive” is somewhat misleading, because a planet slightly more than 3 times Earth’s diameter would be 35 times more massive.