Alien 'Warm Neptune' Loses Atmosphere While Transiting Star | Animation

Wednesday, June 24, 2015 - 13:30 in Astronomy & Space

As GJ 436b, an exoplanet, crossed the face of its star, the Hubble Space Telescope detected a decrease in ultraviolet light as a huge cloud of hydrogen departed the doomed planet’s atmosphere.

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