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Warped spacetime reveals exoplanet far from its star

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Warped spacetime reveals exoplanet far from its star
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View larger. | Artist’s concept of Gaia23bra b, a super-Jupiter exoplanet that is 40,000 light-years away. Astronomers discovered it thanks to the warping of the fabric of the universe. Find out how warped spacetime can reveal new worlds below. Image via NASA/ Goddard Space Flight Center/ University of New Mexico.

Gaia23bra b is a super-Jupiter exoplanet orbiting an orange dwarf star. It orbits farther out from its star than most exoplanets found so far.
NASA’s TESS space telescope

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