Article 4ME4K This Football-Shaped Planet Is Leaking Heavy Metal

This Football-Shaped Planet Is Leaking Heavy Metal

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George Dvorsky
from Gizmodo on (#4ME4K)
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This hot Jupiter is so close to its host star that gravitational forces are squeezing it into a football-like shape. Not only that, its temperatures are so extreme that heavy metal gases are escaping into space from the exoplanet's atmosphere-a phenomenon never seen before until now.

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