“Our measurements placed TOI-3261b squarely in the hot Neptune desert — a category of planets with so few members that their scarcity evokes a deserted landscape,” the astronomers said in a statement.
Astronomers have identified a remarkable exoplanet, TOI-3261 b, where a year is completed in just 21 hours. This ultra-hot Neptune-sized planet, described in a paper published in The Astronomical ...
The size of the planet has placed it in a category with so few members that it's dubbed the “hot Neptune desert”, a name given due to their scarcity similar to a deserted landscape.