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| For the last 20 years the giant planets known as hot Jupiters have presented astronomers with a puzzle. How did they settle into orbits 100 times closer to their host stars than our own Jupiter is to the Sun ? An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a newborn hot Jupiter, orbiting an infant sun - only 2 million years old, the stellar equivalent of a week-old human baby. The discovery that hot Jupiters can already be present at such an early stage of star-planet formation represents a major step forward in our understanding of how planetary systems form and evolve. Learn more about this discovery [[http://www.ast.obs-mip.fr/article.php3?id_article=1014|here]]. | For the last 20 years the giant planets known as hot Jupiters have presented astronomers with a puzzle. How did they settle into orbits 100 times closer to their host stars than our own Jupiter is to the Sun ? An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a newborn hot Jupiter, orbiting an infant sun - only 2 million years old, the stellar equivalent of a week-old human baby. The discovery that hot Jupiters can already be present at such an early stage of star-planet formation represents a major step forward in our understanding of how planetary systems form and evolve. Learn more about this discovery [[http://www.ast.obs-mip.fr/article.php3?id_article=1014|here]]. | ||
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| + | {{ outreach:v830tau_artview.jpg?500 | Artist view of the giant planet orbiting the infant sun V830 Tau (credit Mark A. Garlick / markgarlick.com)}} | ||
| ===== 2015 September 09: hot Jupiters courting baby stars? ===== | ===== 2015 September 09: hot Jupiters courting baby stars? ===== | ||
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