This newfound exoplanet , designated TOI-778 b, is an example of a so-called "hot Jupiter," a world similar to our solar system's largest planet, the gas giant Jupiter , but located in extreme proximity to its star.
This particular hot Jupiter orbits its star TOI-778 at a distance of around 5.6 million miles (9 million kilometers). This is much closer than even our solar system's innermost planet Mercury is to the sun at approximately 29 million miles (46 million km) away from our star.
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Two Exoplanets May Be Mostly Water, NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Find - SpaceRef
A team led by researchers at the University of Montreal has found evidence that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star are “water worlds,” where water makes up a large fraction of the entire planet.
The team, led by Caroline Piaulet of the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets at the University of Montreal, published a detailed study of this planetary system, known as Kepler-138, in the journal Nature Astronomy today.
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