![]() ![]() The discovery is described this week in a paper titled “A giant planet undergoing extreme-ultraviolet irradiation by its hot massive-star host” published by the journal Nature and in a presentation at the spring meeting of American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas. 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. ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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