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News Release 11-094
Why Some Planets Orbit the Wrong Way; Extrasolar Insights Into Our Solar System
NSF-funded research in physics and astronomy yields unexpected results
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A retrograde hot Jupiter: the transiting giant planet orbits very close to the star and in a direction opposite to the stellar rotation. This peculiar configuration results from gravitational perturbations by another much more distant planet (upper left).
Credit: Lynette Cook
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