celestial star quoted as being normal
Astronomers capture first images of new planets, the headline reads.
Further reading quotes Christian Marois, a lead astronomer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, and the lead astronomer in the study of star HR8799 as saying,
The star, estimated to be 1.5 times the size of our own sun, and surrounded by 3 planets all many times larger than the largest planet in our own solar system - Jupiter - is considered a “normal” star according to Marois.