Giant Planets

Astronomers have discovered a gigantic planet circling the star known as Kappa Andromedae . . . a star within spiting distance of the better known Andromedae. The planet's orbit is further from its star than Neptune is from our own Sun. Its fairly warm there, about 2600 degrees Fahrenheit (1400 Celsius). The planet is so ver large, 12 times the mass of our Jupiter, that it borders on being a brown dwarf. Thus it has been called by scientists a super-jupiter . . . until they can better pin point its role in structure of the Universe.

There are no doubt more planets just a swinging about the Kappa Andromedae, rocky abodes much like our own, probably with some terrestrial life up there even now blogging away.

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