Scorching 6,800C alien world is ‘hotter than the Sun’ as Nasa says it ‘could be another circle of hell’

A ROCKY alien satellite is truthful toasty that Nasa says it "could beryllium different ellipse of hell".

The scorching 6,800C satellite is called Kepler-70b (or KOI-55b), and it's conscionable implicit 4,000 light-years from Earth.

It's described arsenic a "terrestrial" satellite – a rocky satellite with a akin operation to Earth.

The satellite is orbiting the prima Kepler-70 successful the constellation Cygnus.

This prima is excessively faint to beryllium seen with the bare oculus – but tin beryllium spied with a telescope.

Nasa says it's "one of the hottest planets discovered", and warned that "the satellite itself is evaporating, soon to beryllium different victim".

Scientists deliberation that the satellite started retired arsenic a gas elephantine that spiraled toward Kepler-70.

The prima became a reddish giant, which evaporated astir of it – but for a coagulated core.

Now Nasa says that the satellite is simply a "a rocky satellite hotter than the Sun".

"Kepler-70b (a.k.a. KOI-55 b) could good beryllium different ellipse of hell," Nasa explained.

"With an mean somesthesia of astir 12,000 degrees F (6,800 C).

"It utilized to beryllium Jupiter-sized until it spent clip wrong its now-dead star.

"A travel that destroys astir planets, but near this 1 a Freddy Krueger-like burned satellite smaller than Earth."

The satellite was archetypal detected successful 2011 – and has since been flagged by Nasa arsenic a "horror" world.

It was spotted owed to the reflection of starlight caused by the satellite – alongside different satellite named Kepler-70c.

The alien satellite would beryllium toastier than the hottest confirmed exoplanet KELT-9b, which has a measured somesthesia of 4,326C.

Scientists deliberation that the big prima Kepler-70 stopped being a reddish elephantine astir 18.4 cardinal years ago.

Eventually it volition tally retired of helium and crook into a achromatic dwarf.

This is an highly dense prima that isn't precise luminous – and is typically the past signifier of a prima that isn't monolithic capable to go a neutron prima oregon achromatic hole.

Sadly it's improbable that we'll ever beryllium capable to sojourn Kepler-70b.

At a region of 4,015 light-years from Earth, it would instrumentality an bonzer magnitude of clip to reach.

Later Apollo spaceships reached speeds of astir 24,500mph.

At that speed, it would instrumentality astir 965 cardinal years to scope the planet.