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Jupiter-Sized Planet Discovered 1500 Light Years Away

As per a report published in Nature on March 18, 2010 a Jupiter –sized planet has been discovered beyond the solar system nearly 1500 light years away by a French spacecraft. The spacecraft designed to discovered new significant finds yet COROT 9b- a planet that looks like a cousin to those in our own solar system. The new planet is less massive than Jupiter and orbits a star, called COROT 9, at about the same distance mercury orbits the sun .the new world is of fairly average size, but it is the most temperate exoplanet   yet whose properties are well know in orbit around a sun-like star. Residing 1500 light years away in the constellation serpents cauda, COROT 9b has about the same diameter as Jupiter. It has about the same diameter as Jupiter. It keeps a much greater distance from its host star than the other transiting planets discovered to date, most all of which reside in scalding hot orbits less than 10 million km from their stars.

The new found planet circles its star at about 60 million km,leaving it with a relatively mind temperature that is estimated to be between minus 20 degrees Celsius and 150 degrees Celsius ,depending on its atmospheric make-up for comparison, many exoplanets are so close to their stars that their temperatures exceed 1000 degrees Celsius.