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Finding Kepler’s unwanted Jupiters
The NASA Kepler mission has found scores of Jupiter-sized candidate planets in other solar systems — but mostly, they have been so-called hot Jupiters, those that tightly hug their host stars in short period orbits. A true Jupiter analogue, however, one with a period of 12 years, just as in our solar system, has been lacking. And they hold plenty of interest for theorists, who think that our Jupiter was instrumental in creating the conditions for the Earth to form.
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