Artist's impression shows a gas-giant exoplanet transiting across the face of its star. (Credit: ESA/C. Carreau)
From Science Daily:
ScienceDaily (Aug. 27, 2009) — A planet has been discovered with ten times the mass of Jupiter, but which orbits its star in less than one Earth-day.
The discovery, reported in this week’s Nature by Coel Hellier, of Keele University in the UK, and colleagues, poses a challenge to our understanding of tidal interactions in planetary systems.
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