A new mass, much hotter and denser than known dwarf stars and much too hot to be a planet, was found orbiting another star. The mass was discovered as part of a project to look at stars within our galaxy (in the region of the constellation Cygnus). Although many planets have been found outside our solar system almost all are more like Jupiter than our own (size, atmosphere, and relative distance from a star).
Read this interesting article in the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/04/AR2010010401366.html?hpid=moreheadlines
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