Has the mystery of really strange Hot Jupiter orbits been solved?

Credit: Cornell University/N.Storch, K.Anderson, D.Lai

A hot jupiter is a large jupiter like planet orbting another star. As well as being a lot closer than people thought they could be another problem was why they had such weird orbits - very ellipical, unlike the solar system planets which are in comparison extremely circular. Now scientists may have found out why this is so - the hot jupiters seem to cause the star to wobble as they get closer to the star, leading to these strange orbits. For more click here.