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IPFS News Link • Space Travel and Exploration

On Zippy New Planets, a Year is Just Hours Long

• Space.com
A recently spied planet orbits so close to its star that a new year comes every 10 hours. Called SWEEPS-10, the planet belongs to a newfound class of zippy exoplanets called ultra-short-period planets that have orbits of less than a day.

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