Discovering Alien Worlds
This is HIP 65426 b.
Image courtesy of NASA.
HIP 65426 b is 2,263,000,000,000,000 miles from Earth.
It was first discovered in 2017, and first photographed in 2022.
It is the size of 9 Jupiters, and it is composed mainly of gas.
So far away that even machines cannot reach it.
We can only imagine what it might look like. And we have – for centuries.
Find out more about what we know about exoplanets – and why it matters.
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What is out there?
Can we go there?
What’s it like there?
Why do we care?
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