{"id":240662,"date":"2026-07-11T07:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/warm-jupiter-exoplanet-transiting-a-sun-like-star-discovered"},"modified":"2026-07-11T07:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:25:16","slug":"warm-jupiter-exoplanet-transiting-a-sun-like-star-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/warm-jupiter-exoplanet-transiting-a-sun-like-star-discovered","title":{"rendered":"Warm Jupiter exoplanet transiting a sun-like star discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/warm-jupiter-exoplanet-transiting-a-sun-like-star-discovered2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star as part of the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). The newfound alien world, designated NGTS-39 b, is a Jupiter-sized planet with an equilibrium temperature of about 519 K. The discovery was <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2607.02061\" target=\"_blank\">detailed in a paper<\/a> published July 2 on the preprint server <i>arXiv<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>NGTS-39 (also known as TIC-453147896) is a relatively bright star of spectral type F9 located some 910 light-years from Earth. The star was observed multiple times between 2019 and 2024 with NASA\u2019s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which detected a transit signal in its light curve.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a group of astronomers led by Ioannis Apergis of the University of Warwick, UK, have used NGTS\u2019 12 robotic Newtonian telescopes to perform follow-up photometric observations of NGTS-39. This, together with radial velocity measurements from CORALIE and HARPS spectrographs, allowed the team to confirm the planetary nature of the TESS-detected signal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star as part of the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). The newfound alien world, designated NGTS-39 b, is a Jupiter-sized planet with an equilibrium temperature of about 519 K. The discovery was detailed in a paper published July 2 on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}