Summary

Description	The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered an 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD106906 b that occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away. This planet may be offering clues to something that might be much closer to home: a hypothesized distant member of our Solar System dubbed “Planet Nine.” This is the first time that astronomers have been able to measure the motion of a massive Jupiter-like planet that is orbiting very far away from its host stars and visible debris disc. Credit: Directed by: Bethany Downer and Nico Bartmann Editing: Nico Bartmann Web and technical support: Gurvan Bazin and Raquel Yumi Shida Written by: Bethany Downer Music: John Stanford - Far Centaurus (johnstanfordmusic.com) Footage and photos: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser, NASA/Desiree Stover
Date	2020-12-10
Source	commons.wikimedia.org
Author	ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser, NASA/Desiree Stover

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Attribution: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser, NASA/Desiree Stover, 2020-12-10