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  • Team finds largest exoplanet yet [ TrES-4 ]

    08/07/2007 11:07:17 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 4 replies · 292+ views
    BBC ^ | Tuesday, August 7, 2007 | unattributed
    The "transiting" planet - meaning one that passes in front of its parent star as seen from Earth - is about 70% larger than Jupiter. But the presumed "gas giant" has a much lower mass than Jupiter - the biggest planet in our Solar System - making it of extremely low density... The new exoplanet, called TrES-4, is located in the constellation of Hercules and was discovered by a team working on the Transatlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES)... TrES-4 circles the star GSC02620-00648, which lies about 1,435 light-years away from Earth. Being only about seven million km (4.5 million miles) from...