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Astronomers Directly Image Massive Star #39;s #39;Super-Jupiter #39; http://WWW.GOODNEWS.WS
goodnews.ws Astronomers using infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii have discovered a "super-Jupiter" around the bright star Kappa Andromedae, which now holds the record for the most massive star known to host a directly imaged planet or lightweight brown dwarf companion.Designated Kappa Andromedae b (Kappa And b, for short), the new object has a mass about 12.8 times greater than Jupiter #39;s. This places it teetering on the dividing line that separates the most massive planets from the lowest-mass brown dwarfs. That ambiguity is one of the object #39;s charms, say researchers, who call it a super-Jupiter to embrace both possibilities. "According to conventional models of planetary formation, Kappa And b falls just shy of being able to generate energy by fusion, at which point it would be considered a brown dwarf rather than a planet," said Michael McElwain, a member of the discovery team at NASA #39;s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "But this isn #39;t definitive, and other considerations could nudge the object across the line into brown dwarf territory." Massive planets slowly radiate the heat leftover from their own formation. For example, the planet Jupiter emits about twice the energy it receives from the sun. But if the object is massive enough, it #39;s able to produce energy internally by fusing a heavy form of hydrogen called deuterium. (Stars like the sun, on the other hand, produce energy through a similar process that fuses the lighter and much more ...From:newssciencenewsViews:2 0ratingsTime:01:02More inScience Technology

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