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University of Hawaii Astronomers Find Evidence for Planets Shrinking Over Billions of Years
January 12, 2021
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Jan. 12 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release on Jan. 11:

A team of astronomers led by University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) graduate student Travis Berger has shown that an intriguing class of Neptune-sized planets shrinks over billions of years.

From centuries of studying the planets within our solar system, astronomers have wondered how planets form and evolve to become the ones we observe them today. O . . .

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