Found! 'Young Jupiter,' the Smallest Exoplanet Directly Seen by Telescope

Astronomers have detected the smallest alien planet yet to be directly photographed by a telescope on Earth, a methane-shrouded gas giant much like a young Jupiter. The planet 51 Eridani b orbits a star 96 light-years from Earth and resembles a young Jupi

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