Hottest Jupiter (IMAGE)

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Hottest Jupiter

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This is an artist's rendering of KELT-9b and KELT-9. KELT-9b is a gas giant 2.8 times more massive than Jupiter but only half as dense. KELT-9b orbits a star, KELT-9, which is more than twice as large and nearly twice as hot as our sun.

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

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