Unexpected excess of giant planets in star cluster
Friday, June 17, 2016 - 10:31
in Astronomy & Space
An international team of astronomers have found that there are far more planets of the hot Jupiter type than expected in a cluster of stars called Messier 67. This surprising result was obtained using a number of telescopes and instruments, among them the HARPS spectrograph at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. The denser environment […]