Giant gas planets that orbit very close to their star, with orbital periods of only a few days and extremely hot upper atmospheres. A planet belongs here when its cited article calls it a hot Jupiter. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.
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51 Pegasi b (Wikipedia)
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It is the prototype for a class of planets called hot Jupiters.
WASP-12b (Wikipedia)
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WASP-12b is a hot Jupiter (a class of extrasolar planets) orbiting the star WASP-12, discovered in April of 2008, by the SuperWASP planetary transit survey.
HD 209458 b (Wikipedia)
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HD 209458 b is an exoplanet, specifically a hot Jupiter, that orbits the solar analog HD 209458 in the constellation Pegasus, some 157 light-years (48 parsecs) from the Solar System.
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