[HN Gopher] A "hot Jupiter's" dark side is revealed in detail fo...
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A "hot Jupiter's" dark side is revealed in detail for first time
Author : WalterSobchak
Score : 22 points
Date : 2022-02-21 20:45 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| DoreenMichele wrote:
| This is a study of an exoplanet. Apparently, _a "hot Jupiter"_ is
| shorthand for a general classification of planet type.
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| _The planet at the center of the new study, which appears today
| in Nature Astronomy, is WASP-121b, a massive gas giant nearly
| twice the size of Jupiter. The planet is an ultrahot Jupiter and
| was discovered in 2015 orbiting a star about 850 light years from
| Earth._
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