Monday, May 24, 2010

In Space...


No one can hear you nom.

From Yahoo News:

Hubble catches planet being devoured by its star
Mon May 24, 4:19 pm ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Hubble space telescope has discovered a planet in our galaxy in the process of being devoured by the star that it orbits, according to a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The doomed planet, dubbed WASP-12b, has the highest known surface temperature of any planet in the Milky Way -- around 1,500 degrees Celsius (2,800 degrees Fahrenheit).

But it could be enveloped by its own parent star over the next ten million years, the paper's authors have concluded.
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4...3...2...1...

Set the controls

For the heart of the Sun.

1 comment:

Yodood said...

Lovin' all the Floyd lately