🔬 Science 2d ago · Laurence Tognetti, MSc

Strange giant planet TOI-1355 b set to vanish from view in 2033

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Strange giant planet TOI-1355 b set to vanish from view in 2033
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Since their first discovery in 1995, hot Jupiter exoplanets (hot Jupiters, for short) quickly challenged our understanding of exoplanet formation and evolution, including exoplanetary system architecture. This is because, as their name implies, they orbit at extremely close distances to their host stars, ranging from a few days to a few hours. Some of their orbits are even oval-shaped, called eccentric in the scientific community, meaning their orbit is oval-shaped. But could such an orbit cause

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