Hottest Planet' in the Universe

Scientists have claimed that the planet found last year is the hottest in the universe. The planet, named as HD 15082 is scorching at 3,200C. Its temperature is 900C hotter than what was formerly the hottest known planet in the Milky Way Galaxy – WASP-12b. It is 380 light-years away in the constellation of Andromeda, reported the ‘Daily Mail’.

The planet is very close to a sun-like star that’s why it is heated to that extent and stretched into a football shape by tremendous tidal forces. It completes an orbit every 1.1 days.

In fact, scientists were first alerted its existence in 2006, after observing regularly timed dimming of its parent star. This was induced by the planet, four-and-a-half times the size of Jupiter, orbiting its star at less than 7 per cent the distance of Mercury from the sun.Scientists have claimed that the planet found last year is the hottest in the universe. The planet, named as HD 15082 is scorching at 3,200C. Its temperature is 900C hotter than what was formerly the hottest known planet in the Milky Way Galaxy – WASP-12b. It is 380 light-years away in the constellation of Andromeda, reported the ‘Daily Mail’.

The planet is very close to a sun-like star that’s why it is heated to that extent and stretched into a football shape by tremendous tidal forces. It completes an orbit every 1.1 days.

In fact, scientists were first alerted its existence in 2006, after observing regularly timed dimming of its parent star. This was induced by the planet, four-and-a-half times the size of Jupiter, orbiting its star at less than 7 per cent the distance of Mercury from the sun.