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Why Do Hot Jupiters Swell? ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Hot Jupiters are Inflated Primarily by Shallow Heating"
arXiv:2512.08932 · 2025-12-09 · CC BY 4.0 · ⏱ 1 min · Exoplanets
New research: hot Jupiters are puffed up by surface heat, not inner fire.
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Hot Jupiters—giant planets around alien stars—swell like balloons, not from inner fire but from 'surface' heating. This finding reshapes our view of exoplanet atmospheres and will help forecast weather far from Earth.

🎯 Some hot Jupiters complete an orbit around their star in less than an Earth day—on such a planet, a year is shorter than a day!

Scientists
Christian DopplerD. B. McLaughlinDidier QuelozMichel MayorR. A. RossiterDavid Charbonneau
Tags
exoplanet transit method
Laws
Doppler effectKepler's third lawKepler's first lawKepler's second lawLaw of Universal GravitationRoche limit
Original: arXiv:2512.08932 · CC BY 4.0 · bridge42worlds