NASA's TESS Provides New Insights Into an Ultrahot World (VIDEO)

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Explore KELT-9 b, one of the hottest planets known. Observations from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have revealed new details about the planet's environment. The planet follows a close, polar orbit around a squashed star with different surface temperatures, factors that make peculiar seasons for KELT-9 b. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bLMIo9Q5mDA Download in HD: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13635

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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