Do more with one link - claim and personalize your FREE link today! Effortlessly schedule, video meet, message chat, network, share materials, e-sign, etc – all in one spot. Collaborate, Nurture connections, Improve client services, Expedite deal closures, and more. 💼 Join FREE!!

Recent Comments

    PTFO8-8695 b tagged posts

    Likely New Planet may be in Slow Death Spiral

    June 10, 2016, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    An artist's impression of likely new giant planet PTFO8-8695 b, which is believed to orbit a star in the constellation Orion every 11 hours. Gravity from the newborn star appears to be pulling away the outer layers of the Jupiter-like planet. Credit: Image by A. Passwaters/Rice University based on original available under CC license at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kepler-70b.png (By Skyhawk92 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons)

    An artist’s impression of likely new giant planet PTFO8-8695 b, which is believed to orbit a star in the constellation Orion every 11 hours. Gravity from the newborn star appears to be pulling away the outer layers of the Jupiter-like planet. Credit: Image by A. Passwaters/Rice University based on original available under CC license at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kepler-70b.png (By Skyhawk92 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons)

    Young star appears to be ripping away layers of close-orbiting ‘hot Jupiter’. Astronomers searching for the galaxy’s youngest planets have found compelling evidence for one unlike any other, a newborn “hot Jupiter” whose outer layers are being torn away by the star it orbits every 11 hours...

    Read More