New Planets in the Spotlight

What do Paris Hilton and two newly discovered planets have in common? They’re hot, fast and cause other stars to look dimmer when they’re around.

As far as the two new planets are concerned, they can’t help it. They are among the few discovered by a method which monitors the intensity of starlight, which can periodically decrease when an orbiting planet passes between its star and Earth. These new planets are so close to the stars they orbit that their orbits last only a few days and they’re superheated to over 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Paris would get this one right: “That’s hot.”

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