“Ultra-hot Jupiter” exoplanet where iron turns to gas discovered0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 30, 2020
The first results from ESA’s Characterising Exoplanet Satellite (Cheops) exoplanet mission has revealed one of the hottest and most extreme planets orbiting another star. Located 322 light years away in the constellation of Libra, WASP-189 b is an ultra-hot Jupiter with a temperature so high that iron boils into a gas.
