An Occam’s razor for very-hot hot Jupiters
Cues from stellar atmospheric chemistry can help in explaining the observations of very-hot gas giant atmospheres.
Cues from stellar atmospheric chemistry can help in explaining the observations of very-hot gas giant atmospheres.
The hottest point in hot Jupiter atmospheres should be directly below their star or blown slightly eastward by winds. What is happening on CoRoT-2b?
Planets that do not transit are very difficult for Kepler to find. The authors of today’s paper are not intimidated by that and find 60 non-transiting Hot Jupiters unknowingly detected by Kepler anyway.
If you thought the weather on Earth was wild, think again: today we’re discussing the climate of WASP-121b.
An instrument designed to look for exoplanets around the brightest stars in the sky; what have they found so far?
How can we explain hot Jupiters? The answer is not completely clear yet, but we are closing in on it: it seems that binaries may play an important role on the formation of these oddball planets.