Friday 12 September 2014

'Hot Jupiters' provoke their own host suns to wobble

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'Hot Jupiters' provoke their own host suns to wobble
Ithaca NY (SPX) Sep 12, 2014 - These large, gaseous exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) can make their suns wobble when they wend their way through their own solar systems to snuggle up against their suns, according to new Cornell University research to be published in Science. "Although the planet's mass is only one-thousandth of the mass of the sun, the stars in these other solar systems are being affected b ... more


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