Tyche is known to be 4 times bigger than Jupiter, well this will definitely kick Jupiter out of its high seat of being the largest plant. According to astrophysicists John Matese and Daniel Whitmire from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. They found this planet while they were trying to figure out what was causing the interference of the paths of comets in our solar system. From the Independent "Tyche will almost certainly be made up mostly of hydrogen and helium and will probably have an atmosphere much like Jupiter's, with colorful spots and bands and clouds, Professor Whitmire said. "You'd also expect it to have moons. All the outer planets have them," he added. Tyche is located in the Oort cloud, the outer shell of asteroids in our solar system. It's 15,000 times farther from the sun than earth, and it is one light year in diameter. That's a big planet! In April NASA will be releasing data on the new planet. For now we don't know if it was created in our solar system or if it was pulled in by our sun's gravitation. If it was it won't be claim as a planet in our solar system they will have to make a new classification for this anonymity. I will keep you posted on this event
sources:gizmodo, huffingtonpost, the independent

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