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Artist’s impression of the giant gas planet orbiting the star PDS 110. Credit: University of Warwick

A giant gas planet – up to 50X the mass of Jupiter, encircled by a ring of dust – is likely hurtling around a star >1000 light years away from Earth, according to new research by an international team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick. Hugh Osborn, a researcher from Warwick’s Astrophysics Group, has identified that the light from this rare young star is regularly blocked by a large object – and predicts that these eclipses are caused by the orbit of this as-yet undiscovered planet.

Using data from the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) and Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT), Osborn and fellow researchers from Harvard University, Vanderbilt University, and Leiden O...