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ScienceDaily: Extrasolar Planets News

ScienceDaily: Extrasolar Planets News


Gas-giant exoplanets cling close to their parent stars

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 01:14 PM PDT

Gemini Observatory's Planet-Finding Campaign finds that, around many types of stars, distant gas-giant planets are rare and prefer to cling close to their parent stars. The impact on theories of planetary formation could be significant.

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