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Exoplanet Kappa Andromedae b

author: Ron Miller/Novapix

reference: a-exo99-32101

Image Size 300 DPI: 35 * 26 cm

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.

Keywords for this photo:

2012 - ANDROMEDA - ASTRONOMY - EXOPLANET - EXTRASOLAR PLANET - ILLUSTRATION - KAPPA ANDROMEDAE - KAPPA ANDROMEDAE b - PLANET - STAR - SUPER-JUPITER -