Illustration of Exoplanet System (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Illustration of Exoplanet System

Caption

This artist's concept visualizes a super-Neptune world orbiting a low-mass star near the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists recently discovered such a system that may break the current record for fastest exoplanet system, traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour, or 540 kilometers per second.

Credit

NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC)

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License

Public Domain

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