The first exoplanet we discovered in transit was OGLE-56-b, discovered in 2002. Located 5,000 light-years away from its parent star, this hot Jupiter (because it is a gas giant like Jupiter) is larger than our own Jupiter.
Iron precipitation is thought to occur here at a temperature of 1726 degrees Celsius that creates affinity for the star.
Running fast. Because a year is only 1.2 days which is only 29 hours. The first alien in the artist’s imagination.
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