File:Hubble Finds a Star Eating a Planet - Flickr - NASA Goddard Photo and Video.jpg
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NASA image release May 20, 2010 Artist's concept of the exoplanet WASP-12b. The hottest known planet in the Milky Way galaxy may also be its shortest-lived world. The doomed planet is being eaten by its parent star, according to observations made by a new instrument on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS). The planet may only have another 10 million years left before it is completely devoured. The planet, called WASP-12b, is so close to its sunlike star that it is superheated to nearly 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit and stretched into a football shape by enormous tidal forces. The atmosphere has ballooned to nearly three times Jupiter's radius and is spilling material onto the star. The planet is 40 percent more massive than Jupiter. To learn more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/planet-eater.html Credit: NASA/ESA/G. Bacon NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe. |
| Date | Taken on 18 May 2010, 09:04 |
| Source | Hubble Finds a Star Eating a Planet |
| Author | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA |
| Flickr tags | hubble, nasa, star, space, goddard space flight center, planet, wasp-12b |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by NASA Goddard Photo and Video at https://flickr.com/photos/24662369@N07/4624456597. It was reviewed on 16 July 2020 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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