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A doomed egg-shaped exoplanet spirals toward its star

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Astronomers have discovered that a distant, scorching-hot planet twice the size of Jupiter is in a death spiral that will send it spiraling toward its parent star. Cosmically, a crash is expected to occur relatively soon. Researchers have been predicting for some time that this planet, called WASP-12b, will eventually plunge into its star located … Read more

NASA’s TESS telescope spots six exoplanets around a ‘misbehaving’ toddler star

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Astronomers have discovered a rare system of six young planets and a possible seventh dancing around a misbehaving young star. Not only could this system provide much-needed insight into how planets form and evolve around a young star, but its similarity to the Solar System could give astronomers a snapshot of what our cosmic environment … Read more