Scientists have spotted a giant planet in our cosmic back yard – and they say it shouldn’t be there.The newly-discovered gas giant planet, which is thought to be roughly similar to Jupiter but 11 times as massive, orbits a double star system that’s just 325 light years away from Earth – which is comparatively close in astronomical terms.Markus Jonson and his team used the SPHERE exoplanet imager on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Paranal, Chile, to survey the star system, and they say the new exoplanet could change everything we have believed so far about how planets form.The b Centauri system is composed of two stars — b Centauri A and b Centauri B.Put together, they are about six to 10 times the mass of the Sun.
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