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 ====== MaTYSSE outreach - press releases ======
+===== 2016 June 20: Newborn Giant Planet Grazes its Sun =====
+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]].
+{{ 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? =====

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