Search for Alien Worlds Season 1 Episode 9 Planet Vulcan Toxic Oasis

Check out this animation from the Kepler space telescope portraying a dramatic planetary discovery. Kepler-10b, it's called, orbits its sun at a distance more than 20 times closer than Mercury is to our Sun. The daytime temperature is more than 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit. Intense radiation from the star has stripped it of any atmosphere.