The Largest Survey of Exoplanet Spins Confirms a Long-held Theory

Using the W.M. Keck Observatory, astronomers investigated the long-predicted relationship between mass and spin for giant planets and brown dwarfs. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

For some time, astronomers have theorized that there is a connection between planetary mass and rotation. Using the W.M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawai’i, a team of astronomers confirmed this relationship by studying dozens of gas giants and brown dwarfs in distant star systems.

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