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cientists have discovered a new Jupiter-sized planet orbiting around a distant sun-like star.

This planet takes 9.2 days to orbit its star, the longest period for any transiting exoplanet ever found.

The planet, called CoRoT-Exo-4b, was discovered by the European Space Agency's CoRoT space telescope, which was designed to search for extrasolar planets by looking for transits, or tiny dips in the light output from a star when a planet passes in front of it.
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11 responses // Scientists discover Jupiter-sized planet.

  • cool!!
    DeliaTheArtist
  • needs a better name
    iammyfathersson
  • CoRoT-Exo-4b just rolls right off the tongue doesn't it?
    Jayhawker
  • why do they do that I know its a scientific catalog thing or whatever but when announcing it to the public they should give this planets cool names like they do hurricanes . I mean if you were told that hurricane Q345-exo beta was coming towards land you would be like f- that I'm staying home.
    symn8
  • is the naming system for planets like the one for cars? give it a bunch of letters and numbers to make it sound cool. Lexus rx300

    otherwise, neat discovery?
    samonster34
  • lets plant weed on it and bake brownies.
    phukna
  • That's an awful name.

    I'm renaming it George.
    Allsunday
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  • But think of the news headline possibilities...
    "Is there life on Bilbo Baggins?"
    "A large crack was found on Bilbo Baggins today"
    iammyfathersson
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