JuMBOs
by Tanja Schumann (TU Berlin), March 2025 Discovery of 40 jumbo planets in the Orion Nebula A surprising find of free-floating pairs of planets has been made with images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. These planets are as massive as Jupiter. In the mosaic...
Jupiter-sized planets
by Ludwig Scheibe (TU Berlin), October 2024 The largest planets out there are massive gas giants. They are heavier than 80 times the mass of Earth, and larger than 8 times Earth’s diameter. With their size and mass, they closely resemble Jupiter and Saturn in out...
Neptune-sized planets
by Ludwig Scheibe (TU Berlin), October 2024 On the grand size scale between massive gas giants and smaller super-Earths, we find a class of medium-sized planets: Worlds with masses roughly between ten and 60 times the mass of Earth, or sizes of 3 to 6 times Earth’s...
Super-Earths
by Ludwig Scheibe (TU Berlin), October 2024 Looking at all the planets of the Solar System arranged next to each other to scale, you can clearly see three categories: There’s the small rocky planets, with Earth being the biggest of them, the medium-sized Uranus and...