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This “Hot Jupiter” Exoplanet May Have a Layered Gaseous Atmosphere
You’d think with how distant the planets Jupiter and Saturn are from the Sun compared to, say, Earth…
Somewhere Out In Space Lies an Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football
“Oblate spheroid”—and no, this isn’t a pop quiz from grade school science; the word has been tossed around…
Record-Breaking “Hot Jupiter” Exoplanet Is Spiraling Towards Its Doom
Astronomers looking out to the sky have spotted an exoplanet that proves to break some records; in fact,…
Astronomers May Have Just Found the First “Extragalactic” Exoplanet
In the search for worlds like—or, more often than not, very much unlike—our own, astronomers have looked to…
Orion’s Nose May Hide a Rare Planet Orbiting Three Suns
It’s no surprise that the universe has many different ways of arranging its guts. Our Solar System may…