A new year every four hours? It's possible with exoplanets

Monday, August 19, 2013 - 22:00 in Astronomy & Space

Astronomers have detected a scorching-hot planet that zooms around its alien sun in just eight and a half hours. And if you think that's something, wait until you hear about the iron planet that spins through a whole year in just a little more than four hours.

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