4 results for “hot Jupiter”
Space & the Universe
Exoplanets: Worlds Around Other Stars
hot Jupiters", giant planets orbiting closer to their stars than Mercury does to the Sun, completing
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Planets & the Solar System
Jupiter
The largest planet is a world of storms bigger than Earth, a magnetic field that could
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Planets & the Solar System
Uranus and Neptune
Jupiter. Their outer atmospheres are hydrogen and helium, like the gas giants, but the resemblance ends there. Beneath the clouds, most of their bulk is a hot
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Space & the Universe
Space Exploration
hot gas out of its back end very fast. As Isaac Newton described, every action has an equal and opposite reaction: as the gas rushes one way, the rocket is pushed
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