An artist’s portrayal of a Warm Jupiter gas-giant planet (r.) in orbit around its parent star, along with smaller companion planets. Image credit: Detlev Van Ravenswaay/Science Photo Library
After analyzing 4 years of Kepler space telescope observations, astronomers have given us our clearest understanding yet of a class of exoplanets called “Warm Jupiters,” showing that many have unexpected planetary companions. The team’s analysis provides strong evidence of the existence of 2 distinct types of Warm Jupiters, each with their own formation and dynamical history, ie those that have companions and thus, likely formed where we find them today; and those with no companions that likely migrated to their current positions.
According to Chelsea Huang, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophys...
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