Scientists Find Record-Breaking Planet-Like Object Hotter Than The Sun
An object orbiting a star 1,400 light-years away is seriously confronting our notions of what's possible in the Universe. It's a brown dwarf, the curious category of objects that straddle the gap between planets and stars, but it's on such a close orbit with its very hot host star that its temperature exceeds a blistering 8,000 Kelvin (7,727 degrees Celsius, or 13,940 Fahrenheit) – hot enough to…