Discovered: A planet 8 times larger than Jupiter

“This result is unique because it demonstrates that a giant planet can form so rapidly,” say reports.
A team of astronomers has discovered a planet that is at least eight times larger than Jupiter, CI Tau b, orbiting 2 million-year-old about 450 light years from Earth star in constellation Taurus.
In contradiction to the long-standing idea that larger planets take longer to form, astronomers from Rice, Lowell Observatory, the University of Texas at Austin, NASA and Northern Arizona