Discover a new planet 13 times larger than Jupiter

US media reported on November 19 that astronomers have discovered a planet 13 times more massive than Jupiter - the largest and heaviest planet of the Solar System.

Observed through Japan's "Subaru" telescope located on Mount Mauna-Kea on the Hawaiian Islands (USA), scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Astrophysics in Munich (Germany) have captured planetary images. giant gas revolves around Kappa Andromeda star. Kappa Andromeda is a star 170 light years from Earth, weighing 2.5 times the Sun.

This star is considered relatively "young" - only 30 million years old, while the Sun's age is 5 billion years.

According to scientists, the discovery of this planet sheds light on the process of forming new planets. Previously, scientists had suspected that planets could be formed from pre-planetary disks of big stars like Kappa Andromeda.

Until now, scientists have discovered more than 800 exoplanets. However, they only took photos of a handful of those planets.

The results of this study will be published in the upcoming issue of the international "Astrophysical Journal" .