Astronomers discover the first ‘ultrahot Neptune’: one of nature’s improbable planets
21 September 2020
An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Cambridge, has discovered a new class of planet, an ‘ultrahot Neptune’, orbiting the nearby star LTT 9779.
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