Sweet Super-Puffs: These 2 Exoplanets Have the Density of Cotton Candy0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 26, 2018
It turns out, exoplanets can be as sweet as a trip to the state fair.
It turns out, exoplanets can be as sweet as a trip to the state fair.
The Seven Sisters, as they were known to the ancient Greeks, are now known to modern astronomers as the Pleiades star cluster – a set of stars which are visible to the naked eye and have been studied for thousands of years by cultures all over the world.
After analyzing four years of Kepler space telescope observations, astronomers from the University of Toronto have given us our clearest understanding yet of a class of exoplanets called “Warm Jupiters”, showing that many have unexpected planetary companions.