An international team of astronomers from the University of Sydney, Australia, and the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy have discovered that a planet that was thought to have long ago disappeared actually still exists.
Using two Maunakea Observatories on Hawaii Island—W. M. Keck Observatory and Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT)—the team of researchers, led by Marc Hon, a NASA Hubble Fellow at the University, found the Jupiter-like planet 8 UMi b, nicknamed Hala after the highest mountain in South Korea, is still very much alive.
The planet was initially discovered in 2015 by South Korean astronomers and is located in the Ursa Minor constellation, also known as “Little Bear” approximately 530 light years away from planet Earth….