#  Mystery World Baffles Astronomers 

 





October 30, 2013

 

 

Cambridge, MA -Kepler-78b is a planet that shouldn't exist. This scorching lava world circles its star every eight and a half hours at a distance of less than one million miles - one of the tightest known orbits. According to current theories of planet formation, it couldn't have formed so close to its star, nor could it have moved there.

Read [press release](http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2013-25)[](http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2013-25).  
Image credit: David A. Aguilar



 

 

 



 

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