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'Super-Jupiter' Discovery Dwarfs Solar System's Largest Planet

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger

In a rare direct photo of a world beyond Earth, astronomers have spotted a planet 13 times more massive than our own solar system's Jupiter. [Full Story]

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