New clues about how hot Jupiters form - Phys.org

Since the first hot Jupiter was discovered in 1995, astronomers have been trying to figure out how the searing-hot exoplanets formed and arrived in their extreme orbits. Johns Hopkins University astronomers have found a way to determine the relative age of ho…

An arrow at the bottom of the image indicates the age of the system increasing toward the right of the image from 1-10 Million years, to 10-100 Million years, to greater than 100 Million years. In th… [+4504 chars]

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