NASA's Kepler Space Telescope may have saved the best for last. Astronomers combing over data collected by the telescope before its retirement in 2018 have found a system of seven planets being blasted by radiation from their parent star.
Each of the seven blisteringly hot extra-solar planets — or "exoplanets" — in the system Kepler-385 received more radiation from the sun-like star they orbit than any planet in the solar system receives from the sun. The planets all appear to be larger than Earth but smaller than the solar system ice-giant Neptune.
