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'Super-jupiter' discovery dwarfs solar system's largest planet

'Super-jupiter' discovery dwarfs solar system's largest planet

Rediff.com20 Nov 2012

Astronomers have discovered a new 'super-Jupiter' planet, 13 times bigger than Jupiter, the largest planet in our own solar system. The planet orbits a star called Kappa Andromedae that is 2.5 times the mass of the Sun and is located 170 light-years away from the earth.