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HD 189733b is a 'hot Jupiter' planet The planet is categorized as a " hot Jupiter," meaning it is a gas giant similar to Jupiter but much hotter due to it being close to a star, NASA said.
A new snapshot of Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, reveals details of the great planet. Scientists use images like this to determine wind speeds, identify atmospheric phenomena and ...
The exoplanet in question is HD 189733 b, a planet that is around 1.13 times the size and mass of Jupiter. The planet, discovered in 2005, is located around 65 light years from Earth in the ...
While other exoplanets are closer to Earth, HD 189733 b is the closest hot Jupiter-style planet in our cosmic neighborhood. Earthlings won't be colonizing that planet any time soon and it's not ...
17-year-old NASA intern discovers rare new planet As if its deadly weather wasn't bad enough, scientists this week said a Jupiter-sized planet 64 light-years from Earth reeks of rotten eggs. HD ...
Jupiter, the largest planet orbiting the sun, used to be much bigger and stronger when the solar system was just beginning to take shape, a pair of astronomers say. Two scientists at Caltech and ...
The newly detected exoplanet, designated HD 167768 b, is estimated to have a mass of at least 0.85 Jupiter masses. It orbits its host every 20.65 days, at a distance of approximately 0.15 AU.
Jupiter Characteristics As stated, Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, and is so big that all of the other planets in the solar system could fit inside it, to include more than 1300 ...
Jupiter to take center stage in night sky this week By Brian Lada, AccuWeather meteorologist and staff writer, AccuWeather Thursday, August 19, 2021 ...
The planet was first spotted by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in January 2020. Before this, only one other early hot Jupiter, HD 80606 b, was known.