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Details Hot Jupiters like WASP-69 b are super-hot gas giants orbiting their host stars closely. When radiation coming from a star heats up a planet's outer atmosphere, the planet can experience photoevaporation, a process in which lightweight gases like hydrogen and helium are heated by this radiation and launched outward into space. Essentially, WASP-69 b's star strips gas from the planet's outer atmosphere over time. What's more, something called the stellar wind can shape this escaping gas into an exoplanetary tail. The stellar wind is a continuous stream of charged particles that flow outwards into space from a star's outer atmosphere, or corona. On Earth, the Sun's stellar wind interacts with our planet's magnetic field which can create beautiful auroras like the Northern Lights.

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Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA's Voyager mission completed humankind's first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system. Collectively, since their launch in 1977, the twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft discovered that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune were far more complex than scientists had imagined. There was a lot more to be learned. A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in order to understand their atmospheric dynamics and evolution. "The Voyagers don't tell you the full story," said Amy Simon of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who conducted giant planet observations with OPAL.

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