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Hubble spots a football-shaped planet that's leaking heavy metals

Hubble spots a football-shaped planet that's leaking heavy metals

Stage Zero Studio with Wil Waldon · Frontier AI Labs

August 2, 20197m 16s

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Astronomers just used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to take the temperature of an exoplanet called WASP-121b and discovered that the world is so hot that heavy metals actually leak behind it as it whips about its central star. It’s the first time scientists have seen such a phenomenon. 

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