Wednesday, May 26, 2010

GLAD THAT'S NOT EARTH!


That hottest known planet may be its shortest-lived ...
This NASA artist's concept image shows that 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 million years left before it is completely devoured.… To read more click on the title above »
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