NASA Telescope Spots Super Jupiter That Takes More Than Century to Go Around Its Star

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A super Jupiter has been spotted around a neighboring star by the Webb Space Telescope—and it has a super orbit. The planet is roughly the same diameter as Jupiter, but with six times the mass. Its atmosphere is also rich in hydrogen like Jupiter’s. One big difference: It takes this planet more than a century, possibly as long as 250 years, to go around its star. It’s 15 times the distance from its star than Earth is to the sun. Scientists had long suspected a big planet circled this star 12 light-years away, but not this massive or far from its star. A light-year is 5.8 trillion miles. These new observations show the planet orbits the star Epsilon Indi A, part of a three-star system....