European Spacecraft revealing
clues about 'hot Jupiter' the oldest mysteries of the exoplanet-hunting era
This Hot Planet is
massive as Jupiter and less than 1/10 the distance at which earth orbits the sun
New data from Gaia
Spacecraft provided fresh insight into the formation, evolution, and relative age of hot Jupiter
Gaia measurement was
used to determine the relative age of stars and it revealed that it can form both fast and slow
Hot Jupiters with orbits
misaligned from the equators of their stars are thought to form late relative to those that are aligned
Hamer said in the statement,
"One [formation process] occurs quickly and produces aligned systems, and [the other] occurs over longer timescales and produces misaligned systems,"