Too Close for Comfort: Hubble Discovers an Evaporating Planet (2003)
2003 · Short film · 2 min
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Artist's Concept STScI PR03-08 Video News Release European Astronomers Observe First Evaporating Planet The Earth - the planet on which we live. It orbits around our star, the Sun, at a safe distance of 150 million kilometres. But not all planets are so fortunate... In the latest issue of the magazine NATURE astronomers report the first observation of an evaporating extrasolar planet, its atmosphere boiling off into space. Much of the planet may eventually disappear, leaving only a dense core.…
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