Amateur planet hunters find a world with a four star rating

A new exoplanet - a planet outside our own solar system - has been found, and it's pretty cool for two reasons: it was found by amateur planet hunters, and it's in a four-star system! OK, first, the planet: called PH-1, it's bigger than Earth, about six times our radius, or about half the diameter of Jupiter. The mass isn't well known, but may be as high as 170 times our own mass, though far more likely it's closer to 20 - 50 times our mass. That makes it closer physically to Uranus and Saturn than Earth, so it's likely a gas giant. It's also hot, with a probable cloud-top temperature of 400+ Celsius (800+° F). Even if it has Earth-sized moons they're likely to be too hot to be hospitable. And since it's 5000 light years away, we're not headed there any time soon, anyway. But the more interesting ...