hot Jupiter

A 'hot Jupiter' with unusual winds? Scientists discover mysterious exoplanet

Unlike Jupiter, the so-called hot Jupiters circle astonishingly close to their host star – so close that it typically takes fewer than three days to complete an orbit. 

Jan 23, 2018, 18:30 PM IST

'Hot Jupiter' with deadly stratosphere stuns scientists

The findings come from a new analysis of observations made by the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes.
 

Nov 30, 2017, 15:49 PM IST

Astronomers discover new ‘hot Jupiter’ spinning up its parent star

 A giant 'hot Jupiter' exoplanet was recently discovered by an international team of astronomers which was led by Kaloyan Penev of Princeton University.

Jun 09, 2016, 12:18 PM IST

NASA's Kepler spacecraft discovers new 'hot Jupiter'

The astronomers also used three different ground-based spectrographs to conduct high-resolution spectroscopic observations of K2-29b, in order to definitely verify it as a "hot Jupiter."

Apr 14, 2016, 18:07 PM IST