A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has been selected to build a tiny orbiting satellite to study the evaporating atmospheres of gigantic “hot Jupiters” – distant gaseous planets orbiting scorchingly close to their parent stars. CU Boulder Assistant Professor Kevin France of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics tells us more.
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