Hundreds of light years away, the hot Jupiter exoplanet has temperatures high enough to melt silver and is orbiting its sun in the length of a working week.
"We received a signal from the TESS telescope to say there could be a planet orbiting this star," he said.The planet was moving so fast, it was hard to confirm as the signals were smeared.
"Because of that, the planet is exceedingly hot to the point where if you were in the clouds of the planet, it would actually be hot enough to melt silver," he said.
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