On This 'Ultrahot' Planet, One Year Is Just 16 Hours Long
ABP NewsNew Delhi: A team of astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has recently discovered one of the most extreme ultrahot Jupiters. Since the planet has an extremely tight orbit, and has a close proximity to its host star, the temperature on the planet's day side is around 3,500 Kelvin. Ian Wong, the lead author of the study, said astronomers may be able to detect how the planet moves closer to its star in one or two years, and that the planet may fall into its star in another 10 million years, according to a statement by MIT. A Star In Hercules Constellation Hosts The Newly Discovered Planet NASA's TESS satellite began observing a star named TOI-2109 on May 13, 2020. The initial detection of TESS, together with the follow-up observations, confirmed the fact that the object transiting the star was an orbiting planet, the study states.
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