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RSS FeedsDistant `heavy metal` gas planet is shaped like a football
(PHYSorg.com Space & Earth)

 
 

1 august 2019 21:25:08

 
Distant `heavy metal` gas planet is shaped like a football
(PHYSorg.com Space & Earth)
 


The scorching hot exoplanet WASP-121b may not be shredding any heavy metal guitar riffs, but it is sending heavy metals such as iron and magnesium into space. The distant planet`s atmosphere is so hot that metal is vaporizing and escaping the planet`s gravitational pull. The intense gravity of the planet`s host star has also deformed the sizzling planet into a football shape.


 
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