Scientists find a cloudless ‘hot Jupiter’ exoplanet with a four-day year – Engadget

Astronomers have found another strange planet that could expand our understanding of the cosmos. Gizmodoreports that a team at Harvard and Smithsonian’s Center for Astrophysics has spotted a gas giant 575 light years away, WASP-62b, that’s not only in an extremely close 4.5-day orbit (making it a “hot Jupiter”), but has no clouds. It’s just the second time any researchers have located a cloudless exoplanet, and they’re believed to be rare as a whole — less than 7 percent of exoplanets.
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