Giant Planets Found in Stellar Suburbs
Date Time Giant Planets Found in Stellar Suburbs In the neighborhood that makes up our solar system, the giant planets-Jupiter and Saturn-reside in the chilly outer regions, while smaller planets tend to orbit closer to the sun. Our planet Earth lives in an intermediate tropical zone well-suited to life. Planet hunters have long wondered: Is this same type of planetary configuration common around other stars throughout our galaxy or are we unique? The best way to find out is to do a census of the planetary denizens of the galaxy. Astronomers began such a census, called the California Legacy S...