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Hubble Space Telescope has found a unique, evaporating planet 32 light years away from Earth

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Hubble Space Telescope has found a unique, evaporating planet 32 light years away from Earth

[ad_1] We know that the universe is full of strange, even unique, bodies, but it still never ceases to amaze and surprise us every day. Now, thanks to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, we have got to know about another unique planet out there - a planet in trouble. Recently NASA scientists have observed a planet whose atmosphere is spreading outwards and it is changing in unexpected manner due to the proximity to its star.Evaporating PlanetA recently discovered, youthful planet orbits a moody red dwarf star and is undergoing intriguing transformations with each orbit. Due to its proximity to the parent star, the planet endures a continuous and forceful influx of energy, leading to the gradual evaporation of its hydrogen atmosphere, resulting in a puffing effect on its surface. Astronomers ...

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 6 June 2023: Planet destroyed by a star

[ad_1] Stars are fueled by the nuclear fusion of hydrogen to form helium deep in their interiors. While most stars live for billions of years, it is known that the bigger the star, the shorter its lifespan. When a star runs out of fuel, its core collapses, crushing together every proton and electron into a neutron. This resulted in the creation of the densest object known to man, a Neutron star – an object with the mass of a sun squished down to the size of a city, as per NASA. While this is how a star dies, these objects are rarely known to be the cause behind the end of the world, but that changed with the 2020 event.Today's NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day is an animated illustration of the Sun-like star ZTF SLRN-2020 engulfing one of its own planets. While planets are known to meet...

A mysterious Planet X beyond Pluto in our solar system? Check awesome TRUTH

[ad_1] For years, scientists have believed in the existence of a Planet X or Planet Nine beyond Pluto. Here is the truth. Until about the 18th century, we only knew about the existence of six planets in our solar system. Anything beyond Saturn was too far to be seen with the unaided eye or a basic telescope. Uranus was later discovered in 1781 and later in 1846 Neptune was also found. But there was one oddity in the discovery of Neptune. Unlike other planets, it wasn't discovered through observation. Rather, scientists estimated that Neptune must exist based on mathematical calculations of its predicted position due to observed perturbations in the orbit of the planet Uranus. And today, the same math is pointing towards the existence of a 9th planet, far beyond the orbit of Pluto. So,...