Eight Ohio State scientists named AAAS Fellows scienceblog.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scienceblog.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Last Updated:
Scientists Find Gigantic Exoplanet KELT-9b hotter Than 80% Of All Stars
Scientists found that the humongous exoplanet’s daytime temperature hit an alarming 7,800º Fahrenheit or 4,300º Celsius, hotter than the stars and Orb.
NASA’s planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission’s previously discovered exoplanet dubbed KELT-9 b or HD 195689 b is found to be “hotter than the stars” with record temperatures that exceeded the hottest giant exoplanet Orb. About the size of Jupiter, the humongous exoplanet’s daytime temperature hit an alarming 7,800º Fahrenheit or 4,300º Celsius, particularly so hot according to the scientists, that it literally boiled away in space. “We’re fascinated with the weirdness that nature hands us,” said B. Scott Gaudi, an astronomer at the Ohio State University who helmed the study published in the journal Nature, and recently in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.