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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...

Kepler-432b: Astronomers Discover New Super-Jupiter Exoplanet

Feb 12, 2015 by News Staff

Using data from NASA’s Kepler mission, two teams of astronomers, led by Mauricio Ortiz from the University of Heidelberg and Simona Ciceri of the...

HD 106906b: Unique Super-Jupiter Exoplanet Discovered

Dec 6, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers announced the discovery of a giant extrasolar planet orbiting its star at more than 20 times the average Neptune-Sun...

Super-Jupiter Found Orbiting Kappa Andromedae

Nov 20, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii has discovered a super-Jupiter around the star Kappa Andromedae. This...