Scientist find Super Jupiter close to earth 12 Light Years Away

An international group of scientists engaged in the search for life outside Earth has discovered a new exoplanet. Those planets which do not revolve around our Sun but around some other star are called exoplanets. A team of international scientists, including researchers from IIT Kanpur, has detected a ‘Super-Jupiter’ exoplanet about 12 light years away from Earth. It is probably one of the coldest planets. Its temperature is estimated at two degrees Celsius.

of ndtv Report According to, scientists have named it Epsilon Indi Ab, which is colder than any exoplanet. According to the American space agency NASA, the nearest exoplanet to Earth is Proxima Centauri b, which is located at a distance of 4 light years from our planet.

The special thing is that the picture of Epsilon Indi AB has been captured by NASA’s most powerful James Webb Space Telescope. This picture is also important because as the planets cool, they become much fainter. It becomes difficult to capture their picture.

Scientists are very excited about exoplanets. They think there may be a possibility of life in any of them. There are an estimated one billion exoplanets in our galaxy, out of which 5 thousand have been confirmed by the American Space Agency.

Epsilon Indi AB orbits the star Epsilon Indi A. It is called Super Jupiter. Although it is slightly hotter and larger than Jupiter, out of all the exoplanets discovered so far, this exoplanet is most similar to Jupiter. This planet is a little away from its star. Because of this also its temperature is low. Scientists have not been able to get much information about the atmosphere of this exoplanet. Therefore, it cannot be said how much possibility of life there is in it.