Astronomers have been able to measure the length of day of an exoplanet. It's a short day. It's also a huge world. At ten times the mass of Jupiter, a day on this world is only about eight hours long. By comparison, a day on Jupiter is a bit more than nine hours long.
That's not all. The exoplanet seems to be very young-- maybe only 20 million years old-- and astronomers think the day there will get even shorter.
Thursday, May 1, 2014
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