Mikko Tuomi<p>Astronomers have confirmed the existence of <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/exoplanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>exoplanet</span></a> Gaia-4b—one of the most massive <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/planets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>planets</span></a> known to orbit a low-mass <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/star" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>star</span></a>.</p><p>Gaia-4b is also the first <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/planet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>planet</span></a> detected by the <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Gaia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaia</span></a> spacecraft using the <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/astrometric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astrometric</span></a> technique.</p><p>The newly discovered exoplanet, named Gaia-4b, has an orbital period of 570 days and a mass of 12 Jupiter masses and orbits a star 64% of the mass of the sun.</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a><br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-02-high-precision-spectrograph-massive-exoplanet.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-02-high-pre</span><span class="invisible">cision-spectrograph-massive-exoplanet.html</span></a></p>