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• Evan Gough
NASA’s TESS observed a hot Jupiter about 1,000 light-years away crossing its star repeatedly for seven years, then the planet vanished from view. Astronomers say a nearby planetary companion can make a planet’s orbit wobble, changing its alignment with the star so it no longer transits from Earth’s perspective.
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NASA’s TESS observed a hot Jupiter about 1,000 light-years away crossing its star repeatedly for seven years, then the planet vanished from view. Astronomers say a nearby planetary companion can make a planet’s orbit wobble, changing its alignment with the star so it no longer transits from Earth’s perspective.
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Using seven years of observations from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and ground-based telescopes, astronomers report that TOI-2535 b, a hot Jupiter about 1,000 light-years away, has stopped passing in front of its star. The findings resolve the mystery of the planet’s apparent disappearance.
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