Posted on 05/22/2010 4:59:38 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
The hottest known planet in our galaxy is being stretched into the shape of a football and rapidly consumed by its parent star, new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope show.
The extrasolar planet on the cosmic menu, called WASP-12b, may only have another 10 million years left before it is completely devoured, Hubble scientists announced Thursday.
WASP-12b is so close to its sun-like star that it is superheated to nearly 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit and stretched into an elongated shape by enormous tidal forces.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Little bit of global warming for WASP-12b?
WASP-12b, also known as THE PLANET OF THE GOREBOTS...... it’s going down hard!
Bush’s fault!
That's almost not enough to roast a marshmallow. Earth's core temp. is over 2 million degrees according to Gore.....
The hot air from Al Whore is hotter.
Maybe Galactus should eat Al Gore for his main course.
Really cool...I mean hot pic!
But I don’t think she could catch one. She’d scare the thing away before she could get close enough!
I though it was about Oprah
Al Gore: Earth's Interior "Extremely Hot, Several Million Degrees"
(Earth's inner core is actually slightly less than 10,000 degrees F. The outer core is even less hot)
"'We see a huge cloud of material around the planet which is escaping and will be captured by the star.
We have identified chemical elements never before seen on planets outside our own solar system'
said team leader Carole Haswell of The Open University in the United Kingdom.'
Wonder what new element that would be?
Elements. More than one. If they’ve identified them they must have named classified them somehow.
Interesting. I’ll try to contact the author, get more info.
It’s not a new element, merely some known elements never before discerned in the spectra of extrasolar planets or other stars. This planet’s special situation made the observations possible.
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