Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), the California Institute of Technology and the Max Planck Institut für Astronomie, co-ordinated by Professor Rafael Rebolo (IAC/CSIC), have discovered in the Orion region three giant planets and another fifteen bodies, whose planet status could be confirmed once analyses are completed. The planets detected are reported to have masses between 5 and 15 times the mass of Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System. The results to be published by the specialised journal Science, include unprecedented images and spectra of
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