... .com) -- Bad news for planet hunters: most of the "hot Jupiters" that astronomers have been searching for in star clusters were likely destroyed long ago by their stars. In a paper ...
... discovery of a hot Jupiter exoplanet that transfers orbital momentum to its host star may hold the key to a clearer understanding ...
... that in some of these systems the star is spinning one way and the planet, a "hot Jupiter," is orbiting the star in the opposite direction ... . It's the same physics, but no one noticed it could explain hot Jupiters and flipped orbits." "Doing the calculations ...
... UA graduate student has set out on the largest program to date exploring the alien atmospheres of "Hot Jupiters" - massive planets in solar systems ...
An international team of astronomers has set out on the largest program to date exploring the alien atmospheres of "Hot Jupiters" -- massive planets in solar systems far away from our own.
GAINESVILLE, Fla., May 7 (UPI) -- So-called hot Jupiter-type planets orbiting distant stars are likely alone in their systems, research by a University of Florida astronomer and others found.
... to its star , researchers have wondered how these so-called hot Jupiters arose. None exists in our solar ... insight, suggesting that the more iron a star was born with, the more likely it is that the star's hot Jupiter had a violent past ...
... 's Spitzer Space Telescope are making weather maps of an exotic class of exoplanets called "hot Jupiters." What they're finding is wilder than anything we experience here in our own solar system ...
Massive 'hot Jupiters', gas giants that orbit close to their stars, are usually tidally locked, which means they have a permanent ...
... , will simultaneously observe 12,000 stars. The two new planets are gas giants of the hot Jupiter type, which orbit very close to their parent star and tend to have extensive atmospheres because ...
... Distinguished Young Investigator grant for his pioneering research to build theoretical models of hot Jupiters ...
... them to be. Many giant planets similar to Jupiter, known as 'hot Jupiters,' are so close to the star ... , and planet formation is an anarchic mess, producing "hot Jupiters" and noncircular orbits galore. Too ...
A new model explains the exotic weather on distant "hot Jupiters."
Gassy signature of habitability spied in the atmosphere of a 'hot Jupiter'.
... Jupiter-sized planet, called HD 189733b, is too hot for life. But new Hubble ... absorb certain wavelengths of light from the planet's hot glowing interior. The team identified not only carbon ... a great opportunity to understand the role of carbon dioxide in the atmospheres of hot Jupiter type planets ...
