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An orbital period of 0.94 days for the hot-Jupiter planet WASP-18b
'Hot Jupiter' extrasolar planets are thought to have formed at some distance from their host stars and to have migrated inwards at a later date. These planets provide new perspectives on the evolution of plane...
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A transiting giant planet with a temperature between 250 K and 430 K
About 70 of the more than 400 known extrasolar planets transit their central star, making it possible to observe their atmospheres and determine various key parameters. The transiting extra-solar planets so fa...
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A resonant sextuplet of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright star HD 110067
Planets with radii between that of the Earth and Neptune (hereafter referred to as ‘sub-Neptunes’) are found in close-in orbits around more than half of all Sun-like stars1,2. However, their composition, formatio...