Image Showing the Transiting Planet Orbiting its Nearby Star in an Opposite Direction (IMAGE)

U.S. National Science Foundation

Image Showing the Transiting Planet Orbiting its Nearby Star in an Opposite Direction

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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).

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Lynette Cook

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