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Ultra-hot super-Earth with 10-hour year found
short by Anmol Sharma / on Friday, 12 December, 2025
Astronomers have discovered an ultra-hot super-Earth named TOI-561 b that completes a full orbit around its star in just about 10 hours. Researchers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and found that the rocky exoplanet lies extremely close to its star. It causes surface temperatures high enough to melt rock. According to scientists, it may host a global magma ocean.
read more at NASA