A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) used NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to discover a gas giant in another solar system. The planet holds a new record for being a hot Jupiter-like exoplanet with the shortest year.1
Designated TOI-2109b, the planet takes just 16 hours to orbit its host star, as opposed to the earlier record-holder, which orbited its host star in 18 hours… More…
Source: icr.org
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