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Young star appears to be stripping away layers of close-orbiting ‘hot Jupiter’

9 June 2016 Astronomy Now

Astronomers searching for the galaxy’s youngest planets have found compelling evidence for one unlike any other, a newborn “hot Jupiter” whose outer layers are being torn away by the star it orbits every 11 hours. Dubbed “PTFO8-8695 b,” the suspected planet orbits a star about 1,100 light-years from Earth and is at most twice the mass of Jupiter.

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  • Astronomers spot merging galaxies hosting dual quasars

    7 April 2021
  • RAS warns of growing light pollution as satellite fleets expand

    1 April 2021
  • InSight lander detects two more sizeable marsquakes

    1 April 2021
  • Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov may be most pristine ever seen

    31 March 2021
  • Asteroid Apophis impact ruled out for at least a century

    26 March 2021
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