Jupiter's twin planet has been found, but it is located 17,000 light years from its “brother”

Astrophysicists conducted a new study in which they accidentally found an almost identical twin planet

Jupiter. It orbits a host star 17,000 light-years from Earth.

Exoplanet K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb is practicallyidentical to Jupiter in mass and distance from the Sun. It was discovered using data obtained back in 2016 by NASA's Kepler space telescope. The star-exoplanet system is twice as far away as any previously observed by Kepler. Over its history, it has discovered more than 2,700 confirmed planets before shutting down in 2018.

Exoplanet discovered using gravitymicrolensing. The study was presented in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and is available as a preprint on ArXiv.org. Later this decade, NASA will launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It will find thousands of distant planets using the same search method.

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