HATS-6b

HATS-6b is a transiting extrasolar planet, orbiting the star HATS-6. It was discovered by the HATSouth survey, a global network of fully-automated wide-field photometric instruments searching for transiting planets.

HATS-6b has the size of Jupiter and the mass of Saturn, and orbits its host star every 3.3 days at a distance of approximately 0.04 AU.

“The planet has a similar mass to Saturn, but its radius is similar to Jupiter, so it's quite a puffed up planet,” Dr Zhou said.

“Because its host star is so cool it’s not heating the planet up so much, it's very different from the planets we have observed so far,” he added.

“The atmosphere of this planet will be an interesting target for future study.”