The planet located around 5,000 light years from Earth orbits one pair of stars and is in turn circled by a second pair.u00a0

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As a result, a total of four stars light up its skies. So far scientists have identified six circumbinary planets - orbiting two stars instead of one - but none of these have further suns orbiting them, making the quadruple star system named KIC 4862625 one-of-its-kind.u00a0

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The planet was discovered by two US volunteers using the Planet Hunters project led by a team from Yale University, the Daily Mail reported.u00a0

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The planet called PH1 is a gas giant slightly bigger than Neptune and is around 6.2 times the size of Earth.u00a0

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It spends 138 days completing a single orbit around its two suns, one of which is 1.5 times the size and the other 0.41 the size of Earth's sun.u00a0

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