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The Cool Worlds Lab just announced the discovery of the first transiting Jupiter-analog outside the Solar System, named "Kepler-167e". The transit method has been incredibly successful at finding exoplanets, with thousands now known thanks to NASA's Kepler Mission. But, planets on wide orbits, like Jupiter, are very tricky to find with this technique. Prof Kipping explains how his team overcame these obstacles to make this important discovery, opening the door to learning about alien Jupiters in much more detail.

::More about this Video::

► Kipping et al. (2016), "A Transiting Jupiter Analog": https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.00042
► Outro music by Taylor Davis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl9kI1yQKZk

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