Astronomers Snap a Rare Photo of a Super-Jupiter with Two Suns

Astronomers Snap a Rare Photo of a Super-Jupiter with Two Suns
By Andy Tomaswick (https://ift.tt/OZAyKon)

If you read enough articles about planets in binary star systems, you’ll realize almost all of them make some sort of reference to Tatooine, the fictional home of Luke Skywalker (and Darth Vader) in the Star War saga. Since that obligatory reference is now out of the way, we can talk about the new “super-Jupiter” that researchers from two separate research teams, including one at Northwestern University and one at the University of Exeter, simultaneously found in old data from the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI).

December 16, 2025 at 05:18PM
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