NASA’s Webb Catches Exoplanet Getting Roasted

That’s the latest from researchers analyzing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of HD 80606 b, an exoplanet four times the mass of Jupiter with an extremely elliptical orbit that sweeps close by its Sun-like star.
Posted on June 17, 2026
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