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Doomed egg-shaped exoplanet spirals towards its star in a death spiral

Astronomers have discovered that a scorching hot planet twice the size of Jupiter is orbiting in a death spiral that will drag it towards its parent star. Cosmically speaking, a collision is expected to occur relatively soon. Researchers have been predicting for some time that this planet, called WASP-12b, would eventually dive towards its star,… Read More »