REdOrbit - 30 April 2013
Image Caption: Artist's illustration of a hot Jupiter exoplanet. Credit: Ricardo Cardoso Reis (CAUP)
John P. Millis, Ph.D. for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online
The newest addition to our planet-hunting arsenal, the HARPS spectrograph, has characterized two new worlds. Planets KOI-200 b and KOI-889 b are Jupiter-like planets that orbit very close to their host stars.
With periods of less than 10 days, the so-called “Hot Jupiters” were originally detected using NASA’s Keplerspacecraft. This instrument has documented more than 800 new exoplanets, with thousands more potential candidate worlds.
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