KELT-9b
the hottest planet known
670 light-years from Earth
A gas giant puffed up to nearly twice Jupiter's width, with a day side around 4,300 °C: hotter than most stars. Its molecules are torn apart and its atmosphere is boiling off into space.
- orbit 1.5 days (sped up here) · day side ~4,300 °C
- tidally locked: one side always faces the star
- kind
- planet of another star
- size
- 264,000 km across
- orbits
- KELT-9
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