New clues suggest how Hot Jupiters form

Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 14, 2022

Since the first hot Jupiter was discovered in 1995, astronomers have been trying to figure out how the searing-hot exoplanets formed and arrived in their extreme orbits. Johns Hopkins University astronomers have found a way to determine the relative age of hot Jupiters using new measurements from the Gaia spacecraft, which is tracking more than a billion stars. Lead author Jacob Hamer, a P