Researchers Discover Giant, Gaseous 'Hot Jupiters' Within Our Milky Way

By Samantha Wright

Published May 3, 2019 at 2:02 PM MDT

The turbulent atmosphere of a hot, gaseous planet known as HD 80606b is shown in this simulation based on data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Boise State Physics presents this month's First Friday As tronomy Lecture on May 3 where Dr. Henry Ngo of the National Research Council of Canada will discuss finding and researching the giant, gaseous exoplanets of the Milky Way. Dr. Ngo joins Friday's Idaho Matters to talk about what we can learn from these 'Hot Jupiters.'

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