Kepler - 410 consists of a blend between the fast
rotating planet host star (Kepler - 410A) and a fainter star (Kepler - 410B), which has complicated the confirmation of the planetary candidate.
Not exact matches
The astronomy teams were led by Lorna Temple, Astrophysics Researcher at Keele University, who explained: «
Planet - search teams are only just beginning to find hot - Jupiter
planets with hot, fast -
rotating host stars.
Not only that, but as the
planet and its four planetary siblings orbit their
host star, the whole system
rotates in space due to tugs from a partner
star, as if Saturn and its rings were turning on a spit.
Without a magnetic field generated by a
rotating molten metallic core, the atmosphere of such a
planet would also face progressive erosion by the stellar wind of its
host star.