The planet has a mass 1.3 times that of Jupiter and orbits an M dwarf star, completing one revolution every 4,170 days.

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The planet was first spotted by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in January 2020. Before this, only one other early hot Jupiter, HD 80606 b, was known.

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Fu also notes that researchers are not looking for life on this planet, because it's a gas giant and also too hot. The planet is 13 times closer to its star than Mercury is to the sun.