Newly Discovered Exoplanet GJ 504b (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Newly Discovered Exoplanet GJ 504b

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Glowing a dark magenta, the newly discovered exoplanet GJ 504b weighs in with about four times Jupiter's mass, making it the lowest-mass planet ever directly imaged around a star like the sun.

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger

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