WASP-76

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WASP-76, also known as TOI-2403, is a binary star system located 636.97 light-years away from Earth. Its main star A has a hot Jupiter, and astronomers have discovered at least 11 different elements in its atmosphere, indicating that it may have consumed a smaller rocky planet. It is estimated that the temperature on the sunny side of WASP-76b exceeded 2400 ° C, which is high enough to cause molecules to thermally decompose into atoms and be carried to higher altitudes in the atmosphere, and hot enough to vaporize metals

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