Planet almost identical to Jupiter is spotted orbiting a star 17,000 light years away

A planet ‘almost identical’ to Jupiter has been spotted orbiting a star 17,000 light years from Earth by NASA‘s Kepler telescope, scientists have revealed.  The exoplanet, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, is almost identical to Jupiter in terms of its mass and distance from its star, according to astronomers in Manchester.  K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb is around 420 million miles from its … Read more