Exoplanet caught in 'hairpin turn' signals how high-mass gas giants form
July 17, 2024
July 17, 2024
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, July 17 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Astronomers have discovered a planet that has the most oblong orbit ever found among transiting planets. The exoplanet's extreme circuit which looks closer to a cucumber than a circle follows one of the most drastically stretched-out orbits of all known exoplanets, planets that orbit stars outside our solar system. It is also orbiting its star backwards, lending in . . .
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Astronomers have discovered a planet that has the most oblong orbit ever found among transiting planets. The exoplanet's extreme circuit which looks closer to a cucumber than a circle follows one of the most drastically stretched-out orbits of all known exoplanets, planets that orbit stars outside our solar system. It is also orbiting its star backwards, lending in . . .