Super-Jupiter

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title: "Super-Jupiter" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["giant-planets", "types-of-planet", "exoplanets"] description: "Class of planets with more mass than Jupiter" topic_path: "general/giant-planets" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Jupiter" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Class of planets with more mass than Jupiter ::

::callout[type=note] the type of astronomical object ::

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A super-Jupiter is a gas giant exoplanet that is more massive than the planet Jupiter. For example, companions at the planet–brown dwarf borderline have been called super-Jupiters, such as around the star Kappa Andromedae.

Makeup

By 2011 there were 180 known super-Jupiters, some hot, some cold. Even though they are more massive than Jupiter, they remain about the same size as Jupiter up to 80 Jupiter masses. An example of this may be the exoplanet HAT-P-1b with about half the mass of Jupiter but about 1.38 times larger diameter.

CoRoT-3b

CoRoT-3b, with a mass around 22 Jupiter masses, is predicted to have an average density of 26.4 g/cm3, greater than osmium (22.6 g/cm3), the densest natural element under standard conditions. Extreme compression of matter inside it causes the high density, because it is likely composed mainly of hydrogen. The surface gravity is also high, over 50 times that of Earth.

Kappa Andromedae b

In 2012, the super-Jupiter Kappa Andromedae b was imaged around the star Kappa Andromedae,

References

References

1. (19 November 2012). "Astronomers Directly Image Massive Star's 'Super-Jupiter'". [[NASA]].
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3. Chang, Kenneth. (2010-11-11). "Puzzling Puffy Planet, Less Dense Than Cork, Is Discovered". [[The New York Times]].
4. Deleuil, M.. (2008). "Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission. VI. CoRoT-Exo-3b: the first secure inhabitant of the brown-dwarf desert". [[Astronomy and Astrophysics]].
5. (2003). "Evolutionary models for cool brown dwarfs and extrasolar giant planets. The case of HD 209458". Astronomy and Astrophysics.
6. (19 November 2012). "Image of the 'super-Jupiter' Kappa Andromedae b". NASA/JPL.

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