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roaster [′rōs·tər]
(engineering)
Equipment for the heating of materials, such as in pyrite roasting; a furnace.
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Hot Jupiters are giant gas exoplanets with a mass greater than Jupiter's and orbit close to their parent star - sometimes closer than Mercury's orbit around our own Sun.
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This so-called hot Jupiter, known as Upsilon Andromedae b, orbits its parent star at only about a tenth of the distance that Mercury resides from the sun.
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