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Planets beyond our solar system

Measurements from NASA’s Transit Exoplanet Study Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of the strange environment of KELT-9b, one of the hottest known planets. “The rarity factor is high with KELT-9b,” said John Ahlers, an astronomer at the Universities Space Research Association in Columbia, Maryland, and …

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