Their simulations included the effects of eclipses and tidal heating on climate for an earth-twin in orbit around a Jupiter-like gaseous giant planet.
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In 1989, after a 12-year, 4-billion-mile space journey, Voyager 2 flew over the cloudtops of the giant planet Neptune and its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swampy areas, frozen lakes and craters.
Apparently Mars is some sort of giant health club planet, and all the men are built like pro wrestlers and all the women are very gorgeous and they wear skimpy outfits.
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The research team will be continuing its observation of the system in the hopes of finding another planet around the giant star.
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About one-fifth of them are home to a gas giant like Jupiter or a still more massive planet.
The same team of astronomers who discovered it had earlier found another planet, this time a gaseous giant similar to Neptune, orbiting the same star every 5.4 days.
But after a lifeboat rescue, the endearing creature - which looks like a giant head, and has a parrot-like beak, no tail and two giant dorsal fins - is settling down to life at the Blue Planet Aquarium in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.
In the second, a model is turned into an alien planet, complete with an army of clone soldiers surrounded by giant war machines and laser bolts.
On the plus side, the ability to directly detect light from a planet closer to the size of Earth than a Jupiter-sized gas giant is a positive step forward in our ability to learn more about planets that might be habitable.
Professor Roxburgh told BBC News there appeared to be another planet orbiting the same "sun" - a Neptune-sized gas giant.
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