University of Texas: Young Giant Planet Offers Clues to Formation of Exotic Worlds
June 23, 2020
June 23, 2020
FORT DAVIS, Texas, June 23 -- The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory issued the following news release:
Jupiter-size planets orbiting close to their stars have upended ideas about how giant planets form. Finding young members of this planet class could help answer key questions. For most of human history our understanding of how planets form and evolve was based on the eight (or nine) planets in our solar system. But over the last 25 years, the discovery of more th . . .
Jupiter-size planets orbiting close to their stars have upended ideas about how giant planets form. Finding young members of this planet class could help answer key questions. For most of human history our understanding of how planets form and evolve was based on the eight (or nine) planets in our solar system. But over the last 25 years, the discovery of more th . . .