Giant Exoplanet Rotates 36X Faster Than Earth | Video

Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 12:32 in Astronomy & Space

ESO's Very Large Telescope ‘zoomed into’ the star Beta Pictoris, 63-light years from Earth, to measure an 8-hour day on the star’s gas giant planet.

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