GJ 436 - System
GJ 436 b, an eccentric hot Neptune trailing a huge comet-like helium and hydrogen tail. The oval orbit has persisted despite strong tides. The tail extends millions of kilometers behind the planet.
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Exoplanets
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Tour the most extraordinary, record-breaking exoplanets discovered by modern science. Simulate hyper-eccentric worlds, extreme "Hot Jupiters," and the most fascinating alien star systems in our galaxy.
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GJ 486 - System
GJ 486 b, a hot rocky planet around a nearby red dwarf. JWST watches its dayside glow to see whether any atmosphere survives. Emission spectra test whether any air remains at all.
GJ 504 - System
GJ 504 b, a cold giant planet imaged far from a Sun-like star. It is pinkish in infrared and one of the least massive planets seen directly.
GJ 876 - System
GJ 876, the first planet found around a red dwarf. Its giants are locked in a Laplace resonance, so their orbits keep a repeating gravitational rhythm.
GJ 9827 - System
GJ 9827, three planets straddling the radius valley. Neighbors on either side of the rocky-to-gaseous divide orbit the same star. The three planets were found by K2 photometry.
HAT-P-11 - System
HAT-P-11 b, an eccentric warm Neptune with water vapor in its atmosphere. It is one of the smallest planets with a measured transmission spectrum.
HAT-P-2 - System
HAT-P-2 b, a massive eccentric hot Jupiter. Eight Jupiter masses on a stretched orbit make the insolation swing sharply each perihelion. The planet is about eight times Jupiter's mass.
HAT-P-7 - System
HAT-P-7 b, whose phase curve Kepler measured early on. This hot Jupiter is misaligned, and reflected light shifts as it orbits. The planet's orbit is retrograde relative to the star.
HD 10180 - System
HD 10180, one of the richest radial-velocity systems. At least six planets, mostly packed inside Earth's orbit, orbit this quiet Sun-like star.
HD 106906 - System
HD 106906 b, a giant planet imaged at hundreds of AU. It orbits far above a debris disk, a clue to scattering or a stellar flyby. The planet's separation is hundreds of astronomical units.
HD 110067 - System
HD 110067, six sub-Neptunes in a resonant chain about 105 light-years away. Their periods follow a neat near-integer pattern around a bright K dwarf.
HD 149026 - System
HD 149026 b, a hot Saturn with an enormous heavy core. It is smaller than Jupiter despite its mass, implying a huge load of rock and ice. The core may hold most of the planet's mass.
HD 17156 - System
HD 17156 b, an early discovery of an eccentric transiting giant. It spends most of its year far out, then dives in for a brief, hot transit.
HD 189733 - System
HD 189733 b, the first exoplanet to have a weather map. This deep-blue hot Jupiter has a measured day-night contrast and ferocious winds. Sodium, water, and high-speed winds have been measured.
HD 20782 - System
HD 20782 b, a giant whose eccentricity is about 0.95 — among the most elongated planetary orbits known. It nearly skims the star, then retreats.
HD 209458 - System
HD 209458 b, nicknamed Osiris. It was the first transiting exoplanet and the first whose atmosphere was measured, including escaping hydrogen.
HD 219134 - System
HD 219134, one of the nearest multi-planet systems. This K dwarf, 21 light-years away, has transiting super-Earths plus outer giants. At 21 light-years, several of its planets transit.
HD 3167 - System
HD 3167, a multi-planet system with perpendicular orbits. The inner transiting world is tipped about 90 degrees from the outer planets. A polar inner orbit is rare among compact multiplanet systems.