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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Adam Smith

New planet as big as Jupiter discovered by ‘citizen scientists’

NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt

A group of citizen scientists and astronomers have found a new planet the size of Jupiter.

The enormous world, called TOI-2180 b, is located 379 light-years away and takes 261 days to orbit its star – longer than many other gas giants outside our solar system – and a temperature of around 76C. This is warmer than Earth, but abnormally cold for similar exoplanets.

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