If you were to make a list of exoplanets that would be worth visiting in person, WASP-121b wouldn’t be anywhere near the top of your list. There are plenty of exoplanets out there that wouldn’t be comfortable for humans, but WASP-121b is a special kind of hostile, not to mention a shape that will look quite familiar to sports fans.
Astronomers have been studying WASP-121b using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and their observations are incredibly wild. For starters, the planet is incredibly hot, with an upper atmosphere reaching temperatures of 4,600 degrees Fahrenheit. That intense temperature and the proximity of the planet to its host star has also affected its shape.
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