The Most Massive Planet Ever Discovered

It’s as heavy as 25,000 Earths, has temperatures higher than 2000 degrees Fahrenheit, gravity 15 times stronger than Earth’s, and a year that lasts just 5.6 days, according to astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The intense gravity means a person who weighs 150 pounds on Earth would weigh more than […]

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It's as heavy as 25,000 Earths, has temperatures higher than 2000 degrees Fahrenheit, gravity 15 times stronger than Earth's, and a year that lasts just 5.6 days, according to astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The intense gravity means a person who weighs 150 pounds on Earth would weigh more than 2,000 pounds on the planet, called HAT-P-2b. Shudder.

"Weird" New Planet Weighs as Much as 25,000 Earths [National Geographic]