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This newly-discovered Hot Neptune is one of space’s most unlikely planets – ZME Science
We’ve never seen anything like this before.
Sometimes, you hear a new planet and go ‘nice!’. But this time, it’s more like… ‘how?’.
An artistic impression of the ultrahot Neptune exoplanet LTT 9779b. Image credits: Ricardo Ramirez/University of Chile.
A hot puzzle
Space is, as many a philosopher and sci-fi author has put it, vast; very, very vast. But even in all the vastness of space, there are some things you wouldn’t really expect to find — like an ‘ultra-hot Neptune’, for example.
Astronomers have been aware for quite some time of…
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