Ultrahot Jupiter Discovered With 16-hour Orbit

A newly discovered gas giant five times the mass of Jupiter was found orbiting its star in 16 Earth hours as it spirals in toward its eventual demise.

IMAGE: The newly discovered planet is relatively close to its star, at a distance of only about 1.5 million miles out. CREDIT: NASA, ESA and G. Bacon

A newly discovered exoplanet has provided an extreme case of an ultrahot Jupiter. Because we needed more ways to compare exoplanets to…