Astronomer Discovers Planet 3 Times as Large as Jupiter
Indo-Asian News Service , 20 August 2015
Chilean astronomer Maritza Soto has discovered a planet three times as large as Jupiter orbiting a red giant star (HD 110014) larger than the Sun and located some 290 million light years from Earth.
A doctoral student in Sciences at the University of Chile, Soto told EFE on Wednesday she worked for eight months using two telescopes at the La Silla observatory, 600 km north of Santiago.
Last November, Soto, 25, discovered the planet now bearing the designation HD 110014 c. Her work has now been published in a journal of the London Royal Astronomical Society.
The discovery of planets orbiting red giant stars is "rare", with only five such planets located around stars of that kind to date, she said.
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