![Artist impression of WASP-189 and its planet. Credit: ESA. Artist impression of WASP-189 and its planet. Credit: ESA.](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_square_2_2_to_320px/public/images/news/3CHEOPS_Result-hotstar_2020-09-173.jpg?h=3bd97307&itok=8B3clDQ8)
CHEOPS, the new exoplanet mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating, has observed a nearby planetary system which contains one of the hottest and most extreme extrasolar planets known until now: WASP-189 b. The result, the first from this mission, is being published in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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