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...so it's got a mass 3x that of our sun, but it's the size of Jupiter? And it's a planet? ...What? The star it orbits is about the same size as our sun, yet a planet orbits it with 3x the mass? I'm missing something massive here, or the summary is terrible.




The M in this context stands for "Mass" not "Mega."

If you take a look at the linked PDF you'll see that the "Earth" portion of that term is a subscript, so it reads "90-150 Earth masses."




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