Incredible Shrinking Planet May Become Liquid Lav# Astronomy - 天文
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Orbiting very close to a Sun-like star, a huge, searing hot planet has been
discovered to be rapidly losing mass. It might eventually be stripped
entirely of its gas envelope, leaving behind a liquid core of lava.
The discovery was made by noting an extended and fleeing envelope of hydrogen,
the first firm detection ever of that basic element in the atmosphere of a
plan
Orbiting very close to a Sun-like star, a huge, searing hot planet has been
discovered to be rapidly losing mass. It might eventually be stripped
entirely of its gas envelope, leaving behind a liquid core of lava.
The discovery was made by noting an extended and fleeing envelope of hydrogen,
the first firm detection ever of that basic element in the atmosphere of a
plan