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hot Jupiter
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hot Jupiter
n.
Any of various extrasolar planets that are large and gaseous like Jupiter, but are much hotter and in a very close orbit with a star.
hot Jupiter  (ht)
See under extrasolar planet.
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The astronomers, led by Dr Kailash Sahu, from the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, US, wrote: "Five candidates have orbital periods below one day ( constituting a new class of ultra-short period planets, which occur only around stars of less than 0.
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