HD 47536: The most massive star found so far with a known planet.The planet orbiting HD 47536 has a mass of about 5 to 20 times that of Jupiter. Its orbit is approximately 300 million kilometers in radius (roughly twice the distance from Earth to the sun), and it takes 712 days to orbit the star, somewhat less than two Earth years.
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