Giant Planet Discovered 240 Light-years Away
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A tiny star gave birth to an absolute giant. Scientists are puzzled.

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TOI-6894 b is the smallest known star to have an orbiting giant planet.
It's about 53 times the weight of Earth and made partly of heavy elements.
The planet is 240 light-years away in space and weighs about half as much as Saturn .
The discovery could help scientists better understand how planets formed.
"Most stars in our galaxy are actually small stars exactly like this," said Daniel Bayliss , a coauthor from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom . "The fact that this star hosts a giant planet has big implications for the total number of giant planets we estimate exist in our galaxy." Topics NASA .
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