The first planet beyond our Solar System to be detected by means of the transit method has now been found to orbit its star almost twenty times closer than Mercury orbits the Sun.
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Brown, T. Distant planet is the hottest yet. Nature 421, 488–489 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/421488a
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