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TIL of COCONUTS-2b, a giant gas planet that takes over 1 million years to orbit around its star (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by Madbrad200 to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the name my 4 year old would give a celestial body.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Companions_on_Ultrawide_Orbits

This group of totally badass dorks discovered and named it!

[–] BitSound 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is it "orbiting" at 35 light years away? That's like 8x further away than the nearest star to our sun. Is there just nothing else closer?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to the entry, the semi-major axis is 7,506.0 AU which is ~0.1185 ly, not 35 ly.

[–] BitSound 4 points 1 year ago

Ah, my bad. It's 35 ly away from us, not from the host star.

[–] Hotdogman 1 points 1 year ago

Gonna be a loooooong winter.