New Super Jupiter has triple sunsets and a super-long year

triple sunsets and a super-long year

TUCSON: If you lived on HD 131399Ab, you'd enjoy either constant daylight or three sunrises and sunsets, depending on the season, but you'd never live long enough to witness an entire season, let alone an entire orbit around your star.

The newly discovered exoplanet boasts seasons lasting 140 Earth years. One rotation around its host star takes 550 Earth years.

The alien world was discovered by a graduate student at the University of Arizona. The exoplanet's peculiarities are detailed in a new paper, published this week in the journal Science.

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