30-year stellar survey cracks mysteries of galaxy's giant planets | University of Hawaiʻi System News
NASA’s Juno spacecraft. (Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ Current and former astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy ( IfA) have wrapped up a massive collaborative study that set out to determine if most solar systems in the universe are similar to our own. The 30-year Hawaiʻi-based planetary census sought to find where giant planets tend to reside relative to their host stars. In our solar system, the giant planets—Jupiter and Saturn—are found in the chilly outer regions, while smaller planets tend to orbit closer to the Sun. Earth lives in an intermediate ...
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