Astronomers Find Incredibly Large, Record-Breaking Solar System
- 8 years ago
A planet thought to be a lone celestial wolf traveling through space without a star has turned out to be a part of the largest solar system known to science.
A planet thought to be a lone celestial wolf traveling through space without a star has turned out to be a part of the largest solar system known to science.
Astronomers recently learned the gas giant is, in fact, circling a parent body but doing so at a distance of roughly 621,000,000,000 miles.
Scientists estimate the planet, known as 2MASS J2126-8140, completes a full orbit once every million or so years.
The orb itself measures upwards of 15 times the size of Jupiter.
A planet thought to be a lone celestial wolf traveling through space without a star has turned out to be a part of the largest solar system known to science.
Astronomers recently learned the gas giant is, in fact, circling a parent body but doing so at a distance of roughly 621,000,000,000 miles.
Scientists estimate the planet, known as 2MASS J2126-8140, completes a full orbit once every million or so years.
The orb itself measures upwards of 15 times the size of Jupiter.