Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system that most often orbit a star.

Astronomers have managed to bring an exoplanet into unprecedented focus by using a technique the researchers call 3D eclipse mapping.

The subject of the study was WASP-18 b, a gas giant exoplanet that would be comparable to Jupiter in our solar system – except it's 10 times more massive.

A distant gas giant is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimension, a team of astronomers says.

, a group of international researchers were able to piece together a 3D map of an exoplanet known as WASP-18 b. The breakthrough creation marks a major first in planetary science, as a three-dimensional model of had never before existed, the team claimed in a .

What's more, the researchers

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