KELT-9b is a giant exoplanet hotter than some stars, reaching 7,800 degrees Fahrenheit on its surface. Yet, it somehow has an atmosphere. But a new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope ...
An ultra hot planet 650 light years from Earth has an atmosphere of vaporized iron and titanium and surface temperatures approaching that of our sun, according to new observations. An ultra hot planet ...
Exoplanets, planets in other solar systems, can orbit very close to their host star. When, in addition to this, the host star is much hotter than our Sun, then the exoplanet becomes as hot as a star.
As we peer out into the universe in search of other worlds, we've spotted many gas giants orbiting close to their home stars. These so-called "hot Jupiters" have extreme environments, but the planet ...
The newest-discovered exoplanet doesn't act like any planet you've ever heard of. The bizarre find is 650 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Cygnus. KELT-9b is a giant planet nearly twice ...
An international team of researchers, led by astronomers from the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands), has directly demonstrated the presence of iron in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the ...
Scientists have taken a step toward better understanding the environment of exoplanets by studying a gas giant called KELT-9b. For the first time, scientists have detected iron and titanium on an ...
Artist's view of a sunset over KELT-9b. The nearby warm blue star covers 35° in the planet's sky, about 70 times the apparent size of the sun in the Earth's sky. Under this scorching sun, the planet's ...
An ultra hot planet 650 light years from Earth has an atmosphere of vaporized iron and titanium and surface temperatures approaching that of our sun, according to new observations. KELT-9b is an ...
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