Fact 126: Is there a exoplanet in our galaxy the milkyway where 1year lasts for only 2 hours?

Fact 126: Is there a exoplanet in our galaxy the milkyway where 1year lasts for only 2 hours?



Yes there is. The word exoplanet just means a planet that isn't in our solar system this means it doesn't orbit our sun it orbits a sun called CaRoT 7 and the planet that was only discovered in 2009 is called CaRoT 7b the temperature of the plant is a scorching 2760 °C (5000°F) and the reason a year is 20 hours is because it takes 20 hours to complete one full orbit of it's sun which is called one year, this I because CoRoT 7b is really close to CoRoT 7, about 2.6 million km.

The name CoRoT comes from the French satellite CoRoT that discovered it, CoRoT stands for Convection Rotation and planetary Transit. 

CaRoT 7b was on the first rocky exoplanet to be discovered, Earth is also a rocky planet although our planet is inhabitable and CoRoT 7b is not.

If the fact it is to far-away and extremely hot didn't put you off the idea of visiting It is also constantly rains pebbles or grains of sand on the unsurprisingly molten surface of CoRoT 7b.

I have worked out that CoRoT 7b circumference is 62888.4 km and I have found out that Earth's circumference is 40,075 km so CoRoT 7b circumference is 22 813.4 km bigger than Earth.

CoRoT 7b is 489 light years from Earth this is unsurprisingly very far away.

The distance to the Earth from the sun is 0.000015601 light years.