Posted at 2026-04-03 03:31:57 — Link

Discovered in the real world on March 20th, there's an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star and it's called TOI‑4552 b.

Its year or full revolution around its star is short.

How short? EIGHT HOURS.

And in one full Earth year, how many years pass on TOI-4552 b?

I did the math. The number of hours in a day, multipled by the number of days in Earth year, and divided by eight. The result is...

1 Earth Year = 1,095 Years on TOI-4552 b

For anyone who has been reading The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint‑Exupéry, that would've been way too fast for the dultiful lamplighter that the Prince encountered on a planet to keep lighting and extinguishing the lamp.