The findings, published in, estimate the planet is a "few times more massive" than Jupiter.
Since 2M0437b is so young, it is still hot from the energy created during its formation — the scientists said in/ Credit: Subaru Telescope and Gaidos, et al. 2M0437b and its parent star reside in the Taurus Cloud, a well-known "nursery" for planets, but since the planet has a much wider orbit than many others in its solar system — it's almost 100 times farther away from its sun than Earth is from its sun — it was harder to observe without new adaptive optic technology.
Approximately several million years ago?
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