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New planet found

The European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) yesterday released an artist's impression of planet OGLE-TR-L9b circling its host star. The planet lies at only 3 percent of the Earth-Sun distance from its star, making the planet very hot with a bloated roiling atmosphere. The star itself is the hottest star with a planet ever discovered. Three undergraduate students, from Leiden University, discovered the extra-solar planet. The extraordinary find, which turned up during their research project, is about five times as massive as Jupiter. This is also the first planet discovered orbiting a fast-rotating hot star.

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