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- gas giant
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Encyclopedic overview
Artist's conception of a hot Neptune
A hot Neptune is a type of giant planet with a mass similar to that of Neptune or Uranus orbiting close to its star, normally within less than 1 AU. The first hot Neptune to be discovered with certainty was Gliese 436 b (Awohali) in 2007, an exoplanet about 33 light years away. Recent observations have revealed a larger potential population of hot Neptunes in the Milky Way than was previously thought. Hot Neptunes may have formed either in situ or ex situ.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hot Neptune” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.