SalmonNgiri t1_je72uec wrote
Reply to comment by lezboyd in Webb telescope finds a 'hot Jupiter' exoplanet that defies expectations by maki23
The science of how we look for planets means it’s a lot easier to see a gas giant close to a star, since their orbit causes the greatest change in the light detected.
lezboyd t1_je744t7 wrote
I'm skeptical about that. A few days ago, a news article was posted on this sub, where a hot gasgiant with a silica atmosphere was found orbiting a binary star pair at 9x the distance between sun and pluto. We're presently using many instruments and technologies to observe exoplanets and transit method is just one of them.
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