Astronomers Directly Image Planet Just 35 Light Years Away

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> This exoplanet is about six times more massive than Jupiter, and it orbits its host star at a distance of 6,471 astronomical units

Far out.

For reference Pluto is just 39.5 AU from the Sun and the Oort cloud starts at 2000 AU.

weird.

COCONUTS-2b huh? We thought naming things was one of the 2* hardest problems in Computing. Astronomy is light years ahead of us.

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