Rare Conditions Can Make Double Hot Jupiters

Rare Conditions Can Make Double Hot Jupiters
By Matthew Williams (https://ift.tt/3RrSXOy)

The Solar System lacks hot-jupiters, intensely hot gas giant planets, so close to their stars they take just days or even hours to orbit once. But there are some systems that have not one, but two hot-jupiters. In a new study, researchers show the long-term gravitational interactions with binary stars that can push multiple gas giants into these extremely close orbits around their stars. Both stars can end up with hot-jupiters.

June 23, 2025 at 02:30AM
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