{"id":131716,"date":"2021-12-03T13:46:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/nasas-tess-spots-planet-on-incredibly-short-7-7-hour-stellar-orbit"},"modified":"2021-12-03T13:46:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:46:05","slug":"nasas-tess-spots-planet-on-incredibly-short-7-7-hour-stellar-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/nasas-tess-spots-planet-on-incredibly-short-7-7-hour-stellar-orbit","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019S TESS Spots Planet On Incredibly Short 7.7-Hour Stellar Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-tess-spots-planet-on-incredibly-short-7-7-hour-stellar-orbit2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of astronomers using NASA\u2019s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has detected a rocky planet, about half the mass of Earth, in an extraordinarily short 7.7-hour orbit around its parent star.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a reminder that the science of extrasolar planet hunting seems to enter bizarro land with each new discovery. Planetary scientists still haven\u2019t figured out how our own tiny Mercury \u2014 which orbits our Sun once every 88 days \u2014 actually formed and evolved. So, this iron-rich ultrashort-period (USP) planet, dubbed GJ 367b should really boggle their minds.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s completely rocky, unlike most previously detected gaseous hot Jupiters on extremely short stellar orbits. As a result, the tiny planet is estimated to have a surface with temperatures of 1,500 degrees Celsius, hot enough to melt iron; hardly an Earth 2.0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of astronomers using NASA\u2019s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has detected a rocky planet, about half the mass of Earth, in an extraordinarily short 7.7-hour orbit around its parent star. It\u2019s a reminder that the science of extrasolar planet hunting seems to enter bizarro land with each new discovery. Planetary scientists still [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}