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Brightest stars in the night sky can strip Neptune-sized planets to their rocky cores

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Why are Neptune-sized planets rare among exoplanets discovered to date? A 'warm Neptune' recently found by astronomers around a bright blue A-type star provides a clue. Astronomers have proposed that gas giants like Neptune would be stripped of their gas in close orbits around a star -- the limited region current exoplanet-finding techniques are able to sample. The warm Neptune is just outside the Hot Neptune zone, providing evidence that the th…

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The Independent

The brightest stars in the sky are tearing planets apart, study finds

Unusual planet helps solve mystery of where all the hot, Neptune-sized planets are

2 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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Phys.org

Brightest stars in the night sky can strip Neptune-sized planets to their rocky cores

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Science Daily

Brightest stars in the night sky can strip Neptune-sized planets to their rocky cores

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Newswise

Brightest stars in the night sky can strip Neptune-sized planets to their rocky cores

Over the last 25 years, astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around stars in our galaxy, but more than 99% of them orbit smaller stars — from red dw

2 years ago·Charlottesville, United States

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Berkeley

Brightest stars in the night sky can strip planets to their rocky cores

Why are Neptune-sized planets rare among exoplanets discovered to date? A ‘warm Neptune’ recently found around a bright blue star may hold the answer.

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Independent Español

Study reveals that the brightest stars in the sky destroy planets

An unusual planet helps solve the mystery of where all the hot planets the size of Neptune are

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The brightest stars in the sky are tearing planets apart, study finds

The brightest stars in the sky are tearing planets apart, study finds

Brightest stars in the night sky can strip Neptune-sized planets to their rocky cores

Brightest stars in the night sky can strip Neptune-sized planets to their rocky cores

Brightest stars in the night sky can strip Neptune-sized planets to their rocky cores

Brightest stars in the night sky can strip Neptune-sized planets to their rocky cores

Brightest stars in the night sky can strip Neptune-sized planets to their rocky cores

Brightest stars in the night sky can strip Neptune-sized planets to their rocky cores

Brightest stars in the night sky can strip planets to their rocky cores

Brightest stars in the night sky can strip planets to their rocky cores

Study reveals that the brightest stars in the sky destroy planets

Study reveals that the brightest stars in the sky destroy planets

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