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Monday, May 24, 2010
Planet-Eating Star
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured evidence of a
star "eating" one of its orbiting planets
(Wasp-12b), with the planet's atmosphere ballooning due to its proximity and a cloud of material escaping and captured by the nearby dwarf star.
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