Hot Jupiter and Red Dwarf (IMAGE)

Arizona State University

Hot Jupiter and Red Dwarf

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This illustration shows a hot Jupiter orbiting so close to a red dwarf star that the magnetic fields of both interact, producing activity on the star. Astrophysicists have used that activity to calculate field strengths in four hot Jupiter star-and-planet systems.

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NASA, ESA and A. Schaller (for STScI)

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