Jupiter-like Exoplanets tagged posts

Newly-found Planets on the Edge of Destruction

An artist’s rendition of what a planetary system similar to TOI-2337b, TOI-4329b, and TOI-2669b might look like, where a hot Jupiter-like exoplanet orbits an evolved, dying star.
Credit: Karen Teramura/University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy

Astronomers have found three Jupiter-like exoplanets that are dangerously close to being ‘swallowed up’ by their host stars. The discovery gives new insight into how planetary systems evolve over time, helping to reveal the fate of solar systems like our own.

Three newly-discovered planets have been orbiting dangerously close to stars nearing the end of their lives...

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Astronomers create Cloud Atlas for Hot, Jupiter-like Exoplanets

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Predicted cloud altitudes and compositions for a range of temperatures common on hot Jupiter planets. The range, in Kelvin, corresponds to about 800 to 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit, or 427 to 1,927 degrees Celsius. (Image by Peter Gao/UC Berkeley)

Giant planets in our solar system and circling other stars have exotic clouds unlike anything on Earth, and the gas giants orbiting close to their stars—so-called hot Jupiters—boast the most extreme.

A team of astronomers from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom have now come up with a model that predicts which of the many types of proposed clouds, from sapphire to smoggy methane haze, to expect on hot Jupiters of different temperatures, up to thousands of degrees Kelvin.

Surprisingly, the most common type of cloud, expecte...

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