KELT-9 tagged posts

1.Artist illustration of star KELT-9 and its ultrahot planet KELT-9b. (Robert Hurt / NASA/JPL-Caltech)
2. KELT North telescope in Arizona. (KELT Collaboration)

Imagine a planet like Jupiter zipping around its host star every day and a half, superheated to temperatures hotter than most stars and sporting a giant, glowing gas tail like a comet. That is what an international research team led by astronomers at Ohio State and Vanderbilt universities think they have found orbiting a massive star they have labeled KELT-9, located 650 light years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. With a day-side temperature peaking at 4,600 Kelvin, the newly discovered exoplanet, KELT-9b, is hotter than most stars and only 1,200 Kelvin cooler than our own sun...