Tracking exoplanets is hard – especially when that exoplanet is so far away from its parent star that the normally used “transit” method of watching it dim the light of the star itself is ineffectual. But it really helps if the planet is huge, and has its own infrared glow, no matter how far away … Continue reading "Astronomers Find a Huge Planet Orbiting its Star at 6,000 Times the Earth-Sun Distance"