Hot Jupiter Extrasolar Planet
by Atlas Photo Bank
Title
Hot Jupiter Extrasolar Planet
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Atlas Photo Bank
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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Illustration showing a hot Jupiter, a class of extrasolar planet whose mass is close to or exceeds that of Jupiter. While Jupiter orbits its parent star (the Sun) at 5.2 astronomical units, the planets referred to as hot Jupiters orbit between approximately 0.015 and 0.5 astronomical units of their parent stars.
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July 7th, 2014
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