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Re:A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of ... by ch4s3 on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @10:37PM (#44820011)
RJup is the radius of Jupiter. 1 MEarth is equal to one million times the mass of the Earth. I’m not sure about RV limits.
Re:A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of ... by mkl on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @11:20PM (#44820246)
1 MEarth is 1 Earth mass. Even our sun is only a third of a million Earth masses. Jupiter is about 318 Earth masses.
Re:A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of ... by samplatt on Thursday August 07, 2025 @12:33AM (#44820596)
...so it's got a mass 3x that of our sun, but it's the size of Jupiter? And it's a planet? ...What? The star it orbits is about the same size as our sun, yet a planet orbits it with 3x the mass? I'm missing something massive here, or the summary is terrible.
Re:A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of ... by Teever on Thursday August 07, 2025 @12:50AM (#44820690)
The M in this context stands for "Mass" not "Mega."

If you take a look at the linked PDF you'll see that the "Earth" portion of that term is a subscript, so it reads "90-150 Earth masses."

Re:A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of ... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @10:54PM (#44820095)
> not sure about RV limits

Radial velocity, how quickly a planet moves “back and forth towards an observer” as it revolved about its star [1]. Its amplitude suggests planetary mass, its spectral shape orbital eccentricity.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.00701

Re:A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of ... by floxy on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @10:55PM (#44820098)
Re:A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of ... by ch4s3 on Thursday August 07, 2025 @12:43PM (#44826790)
I made a mistake here on MEarth and didn't notice the correction until well after the update window on my comment, oops!