The planet discovered by NASA's TESS is a scorcher and whips around its star in under five days.
This particular hot Jupiter orbits its star TOI-778 at a distance of around 5.6 million miles . This is much closer than even our solar system's innermost planetMysterious 'hot Jupiter' planets can form quickly or slowly, Gaia spacecraft reveals
Exoplanet TOI-778 b has a radius of 1.4 times that of Jupiter and is approximately 2.8 times more massive than the gas giant. TOI-778 b orbits its host every 4.6 days and has an estimated surface temperature of around 2240 degrees Fahrenheit . The planet's parent star dwarfs our own sun, measuring around 71% larger and possessing 40% more mass than our star. TOI-778 is also a rapid rotator, spinning at around 90,000 miles per hour . The 1.95 billion-year-old star is under half the age of our 4.6 billion-year-old sun and has an estimated surface temperature of 11,600–11,780 degrees Fahrenheit . TOI-778 b was spotted by astronomers led by University of Southern Queensland scientist Jake T. Clark using NASA's.
Of these TOI, 282 have been confirmed as exoplanets thus far, joining a catalog of over 5,000 known planets outside the solar system.
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