The names were unveiled by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) on their 100th year anniversary as part of NameExoWorlds contest. It’s also much closer to its star than Jupiter is to the Sun - which makes it hot enough to melt iron and gold.
Unlike Jupiter, Santamasa is the only planet circling the parent star. It has the same massive size and is composed mostly of gas. The planet is thought to be a lot like Jupiter.
Its accompanying exoplanet, HD86081b, also got an Indian name -Santamasa, which means clouded in Sanskrit. Not a lot of the stars in the universe can boast having an Indian name, except the newly incorporated HD 86081 - now known as Bibha, a Bengali name which means ‘bright beam of light’.
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