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A new giant planet that challenges what is known about planetary formation. Called b Cen (AB) b, scientists observed the planet from March 2019 to April 2021 using the adaptive optics system SPHERE, installed at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile. A wide-orbit giant planet in the high-mass b Centauri binary system. Like planet x in our solar system a gigantic planet that shouldn’t exist. Astronomers have found a planet near the star pair b Centauri A and B (b Cen AB) a gas giant 11 times larger than Jupiter, the existence of a planet at 560 times the Sun–Earth distance from the 6- to 10-M⊙ binary b Centauri system is composed of two stars, therefore is a double star system, study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The new finding changes what we know about planetary formation. This orbit makes it 100 times…
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