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Space Pebbles Build Gas Giant Planets
How did such huge heavenly planets as Saturn and Jupiter form? Well, scientists have that one figured out now. They have found out that the largest planets were the first ones to get formed.Both...
Detecting Water Vapor On A ‘Hot Jupiter’ Around Tau Bootis
For the first time, a team of American astronomers has used near-infrared spectroscopy to directly detect water vapor in the atmosphere of a gas giant planet in close orbit around the bright star tau...
Astronomers Find A Planet That Wobbles Like A Top
Newly discovered planet Kepler-413b is about 2,300 light years from Earth. It circles its two suns – an orange and red dwarf – every 66 days. It’s a gas giant that’s larger than the planet Neptune It...
Nearest Dying White Dwarfs Likely Still Harbor Planets
More than two dozen nearby stellar White Dwarfs — the burnt- out remnant cores of solar type stars in their final death throes — show evidence of relic planetary systems. A few may even harbor full-...