Artist’s impression of a hot planet transiting in front of its parent star ESA/ATG medialab, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
A gas giant exoplanet has been found that orbits around its star once every 16 hours, and it is being pulled towards its star faster than any other known world.
TOI-2109b is a planet five times the mass of Jupiter, located about 850 light years from Earth. It has the shortest orbital period of any gas giant known, surpassing . 鈥淚t鈥檚 a new record-holder,鈥 says Ian Wong at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who led…



