This planet is a real snail. It has something in common with our Jupiter

An unusual find required unusual tools. Astronomers They used a special blackout device on the Webb Space Telescope. Thanks to this, they were able to block the light of the star and look at the orbiting star. a planet visible as a point of infrared light. What did you find out?

The Slow Giant

Generally speaking, Super Jupiter is usually an object in space that resembles the structure of a gas giantsuch as the largest planet in the Solar System. In the case of the latest discovery, orbiting the star Epsilon Indi A, there are more similarities. The planet has a diameter similar to Jupiter and a hydrogen-rich atmosphere. However, it is up to six times heavier, and it needs from 100 to even 250 years to orbit its star. The issue of distance is probably not without significance here – Super Jupiter is 15 times further from it than Earth is from the Sun. In the case of its Solar System counterpart, it is 3 times further.

The planet itself is an extremely old and cold gas giant with no solid surface or oceans of water. It will certainly be an object of observation, because although it and its star are dated to be 3.5 billion years old, a whole billion years younger than our Solar System, it is still are considered to be older and brighter than expected – the authors of the study quoted by apnews.com point out. It is also possible that there may be small, rocky worlds hidden in the area, where one could look for traces of life.