Doubted Exoplanet 'Back from the Dead' (VIDEO)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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In 2008, Hubble astronomers announced the detection of a giant planet around the bright star Fomalhaut. Recent studies have questioned this conclusion. Now, a reanalysis of Hubble data has revived the "deceased" exoplanet as a dust-shrouded world with less than twice the mass of Jupiter.

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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