Sunday, March 6, 2016

Astronomers discovered largest solar system

Astronomers of Royal Astronomical Society (RSA) have discovered the largest known solar system in the form of gas giant located one trillion kilometres away.
  • This solar system has large planet known as 2MASS J2126-8140 that takes nearly a million years to orbit its star.
  • The newly discovered solar system is 140 times wider than Pluto’s path around Sun and has a mass between 12 and 15 times of Jupiter.
The age of planet somewhere between 10 million and 45 million years old this has been estimated by using lithium signature.

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