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Astronomers discover rare super-Jupiter orbiting distant star
- February 23, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new exoplanet orbiting a distant star known as TIC-65910228. The newfound alien world is slightly larger and nearly five times more massive than Jupiter. The discovery was reported in a paper published Feb. 13 on the arXiv pre-print server.
Originally published at Phys.org