Extrasolar Planets - The Orbital Mechanics Mystery Of 'Flipping' Hot Jupiters

With the discovery of so many new extrasolar planets, astronomers have observed that in some of these systems the star is spinning one way but the planet, a 'hot Jupiter', a huge Jupiter-like planet in very close proximity to the central star, orbits the star in the opposite direction.  read more

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