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Oddball exoplanet challenges what it means to be a hot Jupiter
- June 17, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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New research led by a scientist at IPAC—a science and data center for astrophysics and planetary science at Caltech—studying the hot Jupiter CoRoT-2 b has settled on one of the three leading hypotheses explaining why its atmosphere has a hot spot in the opposite direction from that seen on all other exoplanets of this type.
Originally published at Phys.org