Friday, July 16, 2010

Cometary Planet?

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a planet that is so close to its star that its atmosphere has become super-heated and its out-gassing is creating a comet-like tail it is being described as a cometary planet: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/jul/HQ_10-167_Hubble_Finds_Planet.html.

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