“Paradoxical” –The Exoplanet That’s Too Big For Its Star

I Tau b is a paradoxical planet, but new research about the hot Jupiter’s mass, brightness and the carbon monoxide in its atmosphere is starting to answer questions about how a planet so large could have formed around a star that’s only two million years old.

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