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Planet TOI 4603b
News: An international team of scientists led by Professor Abhijit Chakraborty of the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad has discovered the densest alien planet, which is 13 times bigger than Jupiter.
Background:
They used the indigenous PRL Advanced Radial-velocity Abu-sky Search spectrograph (PARAS) at the Gurushikhar Observatory in Mt. Abu to measure the mass of the planet precisely.
About:
The exoplanet has a mass of 14 g/cm3.
The newly discovered planet orbits a star called TOI4603 or HD 245134, and NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) had initially declared the star as a possible candidate to host a secondary body of unknown nature.
The planet is raging hot with a temperature of 1396 degrees Celsius.
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