NASA – Hubble Finds a Star Eating a Planet

The end of a planet captured by Hubble…

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.

via NASA – Hubble Finds a Star Eating a Planet.

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