The new exoplanet, named XO-6b, is a hot Jupiter orbiting a rapidly rotating star The three XO telescopes installed in the United States, the Canary Islands and the Montsec made the discovery The Montsec Astronomical Observatory (OAdM) of the Institute of Spatial Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) has participated for the first time in the discovery of an exoplanet, a planet that orbits around a star different from the Sun and therefore outside the Solar System. This is the XO-6b. In 2012, the Hubble Space Telescope Institute included OAdM in the XO project that aims to discover giant exoplanets that revolve around bright stars. The discovery has been published in Astronomical Journal. “XO instruments at Utah, in the United States, the Teide Observatory in the Canary Islands and the Montsec observatory in Catalonia act in a coordinated way as if it were a single telescope,” said Kike Herero, astronomer at IEEC. “OAdM has not only participated in the discovery of the XO-6b with the XO instrument,” says Herrero, “but our Joan Oró telescope has also participated in the characterization of the new exoplanet.”