[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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