Hubble discovers a vanishing planet

Hubble discovers a vanishing planet

December 15, 2018

  1. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a planet roughly the size of Neptune, evaporating at a rate 100 times faster than a previously identified exoplanet of similar size.
  2. The name of the planet is ‘GJ 3470b’.
  3. GJ 3470b is 96 light-years away from earth and circles a red dwarf star in the general direction of the constellation Cancer.
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