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Exoplanet Kappa Andromedae b

by

Ron Miller/Novapix

Reference

a-exo99-32101

Date

2017-01-07

The "super-Jupiter" Kappa Andromedae b, shown here in an artist's rendering, circles its star at nearly twice the distance that Neptune orbits the sun. With a mass about 13 times Jupiter's, the object glows with a reddish color.