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