# Think Halloween is scary? This scorched alien world is a real-life cosmic horror story

Think Halloween is scary? This scorched alien world is a real-life cosmic horror story

via [Space.com](https://www.space.com/astronomy/exoplanets/think-halloween-is-scary-this-scorched-alien-world-is-a-real-life-cosmic-horror-story)

The James Webb Space Telescope investigated super-Earth TOI-561 b. This rocky lava planet, located 280 light-years away, completes an orbit every 11 hours and is too hot for life to survive on its surface. It was discovered by NASA's TESS spacecraft in 2020.

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