#6. "Hot Jupiters" DiscoveredCheck it out over here.
This October, British scientists identified three new planets outside our own Solar System, as part of an ongoing search for Earth-like exoplanets called the Wide Area Search for Planets, or WASP. The new planets, named WASP-3, WASP-4 and WASP-5, are about the size of Jupiter, and orbit so close to their suns that their surface temperature reaches some 2,000°C. That rules out the possibility of life on these "hot Jupiters," but scientists surmise that other Earth-sized planets may be making cooler, longer orbits around those same suns.
Top 10 Scientific Discoveries of 2007
Posted on Saturday, December 15 2007 @ 21:13 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Time has compiled a list of the top ten scientific discoveries of the year. Here's one of them: