Old stars don’t have hot Jupiters, suggests study

Hot Jupiters may not last long near sun-like stars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

As we began to discover hundreds, then thousands of exoplanets, we found that there were two types of worlds unlike anything in our solar system. The first are super-Earths. These worlds straddle the line between large rocky worlds like Earth and small gas planets like Neptune. The second are hot Jupiters. Large gas giants that orbit their star in a matter of days.

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