Astronomers find ultra-hot planet that has iron in its atmosphere, orbits star in less than 2 days

NASA has found exoplanet TOI-1518b, an ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet that has iron in its atmosphere The planet was discovered while NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite was observing the star TOI-1518 It has a radius of approximately 1.875 Jupiter and its mass is just over twice that of the largest planet in the solar system It has an equilibrium temperature of 2,492 Kelvin and a dayside temperature of 3,237 Kelvin

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