Astronomers catch a planet changing into a hot Jupiter

Hot Jupiters, massive worlds that orbit close to their host star, likely weren’t always so hot. Astronomers believe that these exoplanets formed cold, in the outer regions of their star systems, and later migrated inward toward their star. Researchers have now spotted a juvenile planet in the process of doing just that, on its wayContinue reading “Astronomers catch a planet changing into a hot Jupiter”
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