'Hot Jupiters' provoke their own host suns to wobble
Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 13:20
in Astronomy & Space
Blame the "hot Jupiters." These large, gaseous exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) can make their suns wobble when they wend their way through their own solar systems to snuggle up against their suns, according to new Cornell University research to be published in Science, Sept. 11.