wasp-5b
Nov 1 2007, Arpita Mukherjee

A British team of astronomers from St Andrews University in Fife University in Staffordshire has discovered three planets, hotter and heavier than Jupiter! The planets are named Wasp-3b, Wasp-4b and Wasp-5b.

The scientists at Queen’s University...

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