KELT-9
hot blue-white star
670 light-years from Earth
A hot, fast-spinning A0 star twice the Sun's size, with a giant planet roasting in a polar orbit around it.
- 670 light-years · 10,170 K
- kind
- star
- size
- 3,280,000 km across
- orbiting it
- KELT-9b
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