New exoplanet too big for its star
Canberra, Australia (SPX) May 05, 2015 - The Australian discovery of a strange exoplanet orbiting a small cool star 500 light years away is challenging ideas about how planets form. "We have found a small star, with a giant planet the size of Jupiter, orbiting very closely," said researcher George Zhou from the Research School of Astrophysics and Astronomy at The Australian National University. "It must have formed further out an ... more
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