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Scientists have discovered a Jupiter-size planet beyond the solar system which is nearly 1,500 light years away.
The revelation came through a French spacecraft.
The so called extra-solar planet, COROT 9 b is one of the significant discoveries till now by the specially designed French spacecraft.
According to the scientists, the planet looks like a cousin to those in our own celestial world. It is less massive than Jupiter and orbits a star called COROT 9, at about the same distance Mercury orbits the sun.
“The new world is of fairly average size, but it is the most temperate exoplanet yet whose properties are well known in orbit around a sunlike star,” said lead study author and astronomer Hans Deeg.
The exoplanet, COROT 9 b is at a distance of 1,500 light-years away in the constellation Serpens Cauda. It has about the same diameter as Jupiter and is about 85% more massive than the Jupiter. It has temperature between minus 20 degrees Celsius and 150 degrees C
However, many exoplanets are so close to their orbiting stars that their temperatures go beyond 1,000 degrees C.
