Pink Exoplanet Discovery | Space Wallpaper

Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 13:50 in Astronomy & Space

Glowing a dark magenta, the newly discovered exoplanet GJ 504b, as seen in this space wallpaper, weighs in with about four times Jupiter's mass, making it the lowest-mass planet ever directly imaged around a star like the sun.

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