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A Gas Giant 500 Light-Years Away Has the Fastest Winds Ever Recorded: A Staggering 33,000 km/h
Some 500 light-years away, a giant gas planet named WASP-127b is caught in a cosmic tempest. Winds howl across its equator at ...
Space on MSN11d
Strange multi-planet system proves not all hot Jupiter exoplanets are lonely giants
"There are still many things related to planetary formation and the early evolution of young planetary systems that we don't ...
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WASP-132 Proves Hot Jupiters Don’t Always Expel Their Siblings
Giant planets orbiting close to their stars were thought to boot other planets out of their star system on the way in, but ...
National Geographic news4y
Planet Jupiter, explained
The gas giant planet's spots and swirls come from massive storms that whip up prevailing winds as fast as 335 miles an hour at the equator—faster than any known winds on Earth. Jupiter is a ...
National Geographic news4y
Exoplanets: Alien Worlds
Nearly two dozen planets have been detected using the microlensing technique, starting with the 2003 discovery of a gas giant twice the size of Jupiter orbiting a star 18,000 light-years away.