Astronomers just discovered a ‘Hot Jupiter,’ and it’s absolutely massive

[Guest Mike Wehner]

Jupiter is the undisputed big dog in our solar system. It's so huge that even if you took all the other planets in our solar system and combined them, Jupiter would still be two-and-a-half times bigger than that. So when astronomers announce that they've discovered a planet that's a whopping 66 percent more massive than Jupiter, you have an idea of just how huge that is. But what's particularly interesting about the newly-discovered alien world named "TAP 26 b" is that it's not a frigid ball of gas like our Jupiter; it's boiling hot.

 

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