A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

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A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiter planets is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimension, a team of astronomers says. What's more, the researchers are ...