“Gaia Discovers Exoplanet and Brown Dwarf Orbiting Rare Low-Mass Stars”
Astronomers have discovered a massive exoplanet and a brown dwarf using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission. The two objects, Gaia-4b and Gaia-5b, are orbiting low-mass stars in our galactic neighbourhood, challenging current theories of planet formation. Gaia-4b is a “Super-Jupiter” exoplanet with an orbital period of 570 days, while Gaia-5b is a … Read more