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The exoplanet 30 Ari Bb orbits its primary star, yellow, in about a year’s time; the star, 30 Ari B, has a companion - the small red dwarf shown at upper left; this pair of stars is itself locked in a long-distance orbit with another pair of stars, upper right, known as 30 Ari A. Image credit: Karen Teramura / UH IfA.

30 Ari Bb: Super-Jupiter Exoplanet Orbiting in Quadruple Star System

Mar 5, 2015 by News Staff

According to a team of astronomers headed by Dr Lewis Roberts from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, an extrasolar gas giant called 30 Arietis...