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November 20, 2012

Super-Jupiter: Big Planet or Brown Dwarf?

Ian O'Neill, Discovery News


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Neil deGrasse Tyson may have helped Marvel in the search for Superman's homeworld Krypton, but one can't help but wonder what kind of superhero would live on a newly discovered "super-Jupiter" orbiting the star Kappa Andromedae.

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TAGGED: brown dwarf stars, exoplanet

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