They pinpointed the massive planet, with 16 times the mass of Jupiter, in data from ESA's Gaia telescope dataset.
A team of astronomers discovered a new planet using a new method that leveraged the wealth of data collected by the European Space Agency's The new exoplanet, dubbed HIP 99770 b, is roughly 16 times the mass of Jupiter. It was pinpointed using a new technique that could be used in the future to help find more direct images of alien worlds.detect exoplanets
Historically, most exoplanets have been discovered via indirect methods, such as the transit method, which measures the periodic drop in light of a distant star as an exoplanet passes between the star and an observatory's field of view. To date, astronomers have detected more than 5,000 exoplanets, but only about 20 of those were imaged directly. This is due to the limitations of our current imaging technology, which means that a planet has to be widely separated from its parent and much more massive than Jupiter to be observable.Such planets are exceedingly rare, and previous observations have primarily hoped to detect them by chance by observing relatively old star systems.
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