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Exoplanet around Distant Star resembles reputed ‘Planet Nine’ in our solar system

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows one possible orbit (dashed ellipse) of the 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet HD 106906 b. This remote world is widely separated from its host stars, whose brilliant light is masked here to allow the planet to be seen. The planet resides outside its system’s circumstellar debris disk, which is akin to our own Kuiper Belt of small, icy bodies beyond Neptune. The disk itself is asymmetric and distorted, perhaps due to the gravitational tug of the wayward planet. Other points of light in the image are background stars. (Image by NASA, ESA, Meiji Nguyen/UC Berkeley, Robert De Rosa/ESO and Paul Kalas/UC Berkeley and SETI Institute)

Astronomers confirm bound orbit for planet far from its star, showing that far-flung planets exist...

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