This Hot Jupiter is Doomed to Crash Into its Star in Just Three Million Years
- Sat 09 Mar 2024 06:22:PM
In 2008, astronomers with the SuperWASP survey spotted WASP-12b as it transited in front of its star. At the time, it was part of a new class of exoplanets (“Hot Jupiters”) discovered a little more than a decade before. However, subsequent observations revealed that WASP-12b was the first Hot Jupiter observed that orbits so closely …
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