Wednesday, 3 November 2010

solar system - Could there be another planet between Mercury and the Sun?

No, that is not possible. There are quite a few capable telescopes studying the Sun since some decades. Already Galileo stared at the Sun until he got blind. Don't you think a planet would've been detected if it passed by in images like these? But Sun grazing comets are pretty common visitors in the corona.



It is a bit weird that a couple of percent of exoplanetary systems have hot Jupiters. They probably didn't form there, but migrated. And still stay there somehow.

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