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The Jerusalem Post on MSN · 7h

Unexpected giant: Saturn-mass planet found orbiting tiny red dwarf

As part of a survey seeking giant planets around low-mass stars, researchers examined more than 91,000 red dwarf stars and found the planet TOI-6894b, which has only half the mass of Saturn."We analyzed observations of more than 91,

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A Super-Tiny Star Gave Birth to a Giant Planet And We Don't Know How

A giant conundrum has been found orbiting a teeny tiny red dwarf star just a fifth of the size of the Sun. Such small stars were thought to be incapable of producing giant planets. But there, in its orbit, appears to be unmistakable evidence of an absolute unit: a gas giant around the size of Saturn.

This planet is too big for its star — astronomers change the way we look at the formation of star systems

Astronomers have found that planet mass is about 17% of the mass of Jupiter, or about 53 times the mass of the Earth. The planet’s radius is slightly larger than that of Saturn, and it orbits its parent star, with a mass of about 20% of the sun’s, in just 3 days.

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New ICE deportation operation and possible dwarf planet discovery: Morning Rundown

A sweeping new ICE operation shows how Donald Trump’s focus on immigration is reshaping federal law enforcement.

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Pluto's 'extreme cousin' is a dwarf planet found at the far reaches of our solar system

A new dwarf planet, discovered beyond Neptune and described as Pluto's 'cousin,' could void the hypothesis of a Planet X in ...

ATLANTIC SKIES: A new dwarf planet and the search for Planet Nine

As a result of the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet, our solar system ...

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Scientists Say They’ve Found a Dwarf Planet Very Far From the Sun

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

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Search for elusive "Planet Nine" takes surprising twist, astronomers say

U.S. astronomers hunting for "Planet Nine" have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system ...

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Planet Nine of Solar System? Scientists Discover Possible New Dwarf Planet Beyond Neptune [Read More]

For the unversed, "Planet Nine" is a hypothetical planet which is reportedly larger than Earth that is thought to orbit ...

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Dead Star Consumes Material From Planets In Hubble Data

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

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Search for 'Planet Nine' Yields Unexpected Discovery

Less than 1% of this dwarf planet candidate's orbit is close enough to detect, which means astronomers are lucky to have ...

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