Planet with A 13-hour Year

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Video imagery:

·        Animation TESS spacecraft: NASA/GSFC Conceptual Image Lab

·        TOI 1807 b illustration: NASA/GSFC, Chris Smith (KBRwyle)

·        Animation star TOI 1807 and planet: NASA/GSFC, Chris Smith (KBRwyle)

 

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Gases of various colors in outer space. Text, News from the Universe

 

Planet with a 13-Hour Year, July 15, 2021

 

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NASA's TESS mission has helped to identify a new exoplanet, T O I 1807b, with an ultra-short orbit, or year,, that takes only 13 hours.

 

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Did the planet form and migrate toward its star in only two hundred million years? Is it rocky with a thick atmosphere?

 

Further study of T O I 1807b, will help scientists understand how these types of planets form and evolve...

 

And potentially shed light on the early stages of our own solar system.

 

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