Astronomers spot unusually hot, rocky 'super-Earth' orbiting one of the oldest stars in Milky Way
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Astronomers have spotted an unusually hot, rocky 'super-Earth' orbiting one of the oldest stars in the Milky Way. The planet named TOI-561b is one of the oldest and most-metal poor planetary systems discovered yet in the Milky Way. “For every day you’re on Earth, this planet orbits its star twice," said Stephen Kane, an astrophysicist at the University of California. The planet's mass is three times the mass of Earth.