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  • Monster Planet, Tiny Star: Record-Breaking Duo Puzzles Astronomers

    10/31/2017 8:32:19 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 12 replies
    Space.com ^ | October 31, 2017 02:26pm ET | Sarah Lewin, Associate Editor |
    The planet NGTS-1b is situated 600 light-years from our solar system, according to a statement from the University of Warwick, and it is a gas giant about the size of Jupiter. Its star, on the other hand, is just half the mass and radius of the sun. The planet orbits its star at 3 percent the distance from the Earth to the sun, and it whips around a full orbit every 2.6 Earth days. ... The system's star is a small, dim M-dwarf, which is the most common type of star in the sky. Red dwarfs burn their fuel much...