Gas Giant Exoplanets

Our star, the Sun, on occasion joins forces with the Moon to offer us Earthlings a spectacular solar eclipse – like the one that will be visible to parts of the United States, Mexico, and Canada on April 8. But out there, among the other stars, how often can we see similar eclipses? The answer […]

A large, gaseous exoplanet orbits a red giant star that should have destroyed it. It’s 530 light-years from Earth.