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On this, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, we bring you a planet where a year, one orbit of its star, takes less time. K2-137b races around its star in less than 5 hours. It's 320 light-years away. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/eyes-on-exoplanets/#/planet/K2-137_b/
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I wonder if humans can adapt to such a fast rotating and orbiting planet like this? And so close to the sun?

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