The planet, orbiting a star 85% the size of our Sun, was detected in April of 2008 and it’s the first ever to be directly photographed. Its solar system is very young -5 million years old- compared to the 4.600 million years of our teenage solar system (the Universe is approximately 14.000 million years old). The planet’s temperature is similar to Jupiter’s, although this planet has 8 times the mass of our gas giant neighbor.
The system is also pretty close to Earth -500 light years away- but don’t expect any earthling turists visiting any time soon. With our current propulsion technology it would take us 9 million years to get there. The main problem is that there is no human on Earth with 5.220.000.000 accrued vacation days to make the round trip.
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Image credit, NASA
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