18-hour year planet on edge of destruction
Thursday, February 20, 2020 - 11:50
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers from the University of Warwick have observed an exoplanet orbiting a star in just over 18 hours, the shortest orbital period ever observed for a planet of its type. It means that a single year for this hot Jupiter – a gas giant similar in size and composition to Jupiter in our own solar […]