Hubble finds star eating a planet
Friday, May 21, 2010 - 12:44
in Astronomy & Space
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 10,000 years left before it is completely devoured...