Scientists discover four 'Hot Jupiter' exoplanets using HATSouth network of telescopes Scientists discover four 'Hot Jupiter' exoplanets using HATSouth network of telescopes We Report The Discovery Of Four Close-in Transiting Exoplanets (HATS-50b Through HATS-53b), Discovered Using The HATSouth Three-continent Network Of Homogeneous And Automated Telescopes, Researchers Led By Thomas Henning Of The Max Planck Institute For Astronomy In Germany Wrote In The Journal ArXiv.org. PTI | Updated on: 01 Jan 2018, 01:10:55 PM Scientists have discovered four new 'hot Jupiter' extrasolar planets orbiting dwarf stars. Using telescopes of the Hungarian-made Automated Telescope Network-South (HATSouth) Exoplanet Survey, the team observed four G-type dwarf stars known as HATS-50, HATS-51, HATS-52 and HATS-53.