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LAST MINUTE: NASA discovered new planet: It takes 1 year and 16 hours, second hottest planet!

NASA’s new discovery: It takes 1 year and 16 hours!


It was stated that a year lasts only 16 hours on a new planet that the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) discovered thousands of light-years from Earth.

Astronomers announced the planet, named TOI-2109b, as the second hottest planet ever detected.

The newly announced exoplanet (outside the Solar System) belongs to a category scientists refer to as “hot Jupiters.” While astronomers have detected more than 400 hot Jupiters to date, the researchers say none are like TOI-2109b.

“WE FEEL THAT WE HAVE A RARE THING”

“Everything is consistent with it being a planet, and we also realized that we have something very interesting rare,” said Avi Shporer, an exoplanet scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

The hunt for planets beyond the solar system has revealed more than 4,000 distant Earths orbiting stars thousands of light-years from Earth.

It is said that the planet, which is about five times the mass of Jupiter and orbits its star in just 16 hours, may not be there in 10 million years.

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