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Source: Reuters
A huge gas planet larger than Jupiter orbiting a star 500 light years away has been discovered by a Qatar-led international team of astronomers.
The team had to use computers to sift through data from hundreds of thousands of stars before making their lucky find.
They identified the planet from the dip in light from the parent star, as its orbit took it between the star and Earth.
The planet has been named Qatar-1b and its discovery is to be reported in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The team worked in collaboration with astronomers in Britain and the United States.
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