Astronomers capture first images of multiplanet system around sunlike star - CNET

Astronomers capture first images of multiplanet system around sunlike star - CNET

First photo of Sun-like star and planets

This is the first star like our Sun to be directly imaged with multiple planets orbiting it. Astronomers have directly observed two systems with multiple planets before, but both have stars that are very different from our Sun. This star, TYC 8998-760-1, is just 17 million years old — much earlier in its life cycle than the Sun. The exoplanets are huge: the inner planet is 14 times as massive as Jupiter and the outer one is 6 times as massive. And both planets orbit many times farther away from their star than Pluto does from the Sun.

CNET | 4 min readReference: The Astrophysical Journal Letters paper