HAT-P-32 is a Sun-like F-type star (about 1.13 solar masses, 6,001 K, 1.37 solar radii), 289 light-years from Earth. HAT-P-32 b is a 0.68-Jupiter-mass companion, with an orbital period of 2.2 days, at 0.034 AU from its star, and an equilibrium temperature near 1,836 K, on an eccentric orbit (e ≈ 0.16), discovered in 2011 via transit. The inner world is a hot Jupiter — a gas giant hugging its star at a fraction of Mercury's distance — a class that forced astronomers to rethink how giant planets form and migrate inward.