Cyprus Astronomy Organisation

A new planet almost the size of Neptune that could vaporise you in under a second has amazed us because it shouldn’t exist.
The exoplanet has been found in an area called the “Neptunian Desert”.

The Neptunian Desert is the region close to stars where no Neptune-sized planets are found. This area receives strong irradiation from the star, meaning the planets do not retain their gaseous atmosphere as they evaporate leaving just a rocky core.
However NGTS-4b still has its atmosphere of gas !!!
Technically known as NGTS-4b, the planet is three times the size of Earth and 20% smaller than Neptune. It's also hotter than Mercury with a temperature of 1000 degrees Celsious.
When we look for new planets like this one we normally use a telescope to spot dips in star brightness, which could mean a planet is orbiting a star.
We normally require dips of 1 per cent in star brightness to find a planet but managed to find NGTS-4b using the NGTS telescope after the planet dimmed the star it orbits by only 0.2 per cent.
Similar techniques could now be used to discover more mysterious planets in the future.