Friday, 15 April 2016

Some of space's weirdest exoplanets #11

This poor planet is slowly being eaten alive. WASP-12b is a planet bigger than Jupiter and orbits so close to its sun, one forty fourth of the distance of Earth's orbit. It is slowly getting eaten by its star. The star's gravity is so great that it is slowly pulling the planet into it. In fact, in a few million years, it would get consumed by its star. It is already an oval shape and soon, it would be gone!

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