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An undated artist’s impression shows a close-up of the planet b Centauri (AB)b, which orbits a binary system with mass up to 10 times that of the sun roughly 325 light years from Earth. “We have always had a very solar system centric view of what planetary systems are ‘supposed’ to look like,” MPIA scientist and co-author Matthias Samland points out. Alien ‘super-Jupiter’ breaks the mould on where planets can exist. The new discovery demonstrates that planets can, in fact, form in such extreme stellar environments. This property causes the surrounding material to evaporate more efficiently. In particular, the hotter a star is, the more high-energy radiation it produces. The large mass and heat from this type of star strongly impact the surrounding gas, which should counteract planet formation. Due to its high temperature, it emits large amounts of UV and X-ray radiation. Most massive stars are also very hot, and this system is no exception: its primary star is a so-called B-type star that is over three times hotter than the Sun. Until now, previous studies had failed to detect any such object around a star more than three times as massive as the Sun.
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This property makes it by far the most massive stellar system around which astronomers have found a planet. The only 15 million years old b Centauri binary star has at least six times the mass of the Sun. “Finding a planet around b Centauri was very exciting since it completely changes the picture about massive stars hosting planets,” explained Markus Janson, an astronomer at Stockholm University, Sweden.