One is a star orbited by a brown dwarf — an object that straddles ... Rocky planets, or the rocky cores of giant planets, need a ready supply of heavy elements in order to form.

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It's this latter property that led to the discovery of the giant exoplanet Gaia-4b. It orbits a star 244 light-years away and is a super-sized gas giant with a mass 11.8 times greater than that of ...