Planet WASP-12b is on a death spiral, say scientists
Wednesday, January 8, 2020 - 09:00
in Astronomy & Space
Earth is doomed—but not for 5 billion years. Our planet will be roasted as our sun expands and becomes a red giant, but the exoplanet WASP-12b, located 600 light-years away in the constellation Auriga, has less than a thousandth of that time left: a comparatively paltry 3 million years.