Astronomers’ gaze turns to new ‘planet’
New images taken of an object five times the mass of Jupiter confirmed it is a giant planet closely orbiting a distant star, the experts said.
The team first spotted the object last year as a faint reddish speck of light circling a dim brown dwarf or failed star 225 light-years away from Earth near the constellation Hydra. At the time, scientists guessed the faint light was a planet, but said further observation was needed.
