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Hubble Sees a “Behemoth” Bleeding Atmosphere Around a Warm Exoplanet
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Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an immense cloud of hydrogen dubbed “The Behemoth” bleeding from a planet orbiting a nearby star. The enormous, comet-like feature is about 50 times the size of the parent star. The hydrogen is evaporating from a warm, Neptune-sized planet, due to extreme radiation from the star. This phenomenon has never been seen around an exoplanet so small.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineHubble Sees a “Behemoth” Bleeding Atmosphere Around a Warm Exoplanet. NASA/GSFC, 2015-06-24. Public domain. ID: hubble-sees-a-behemoth-bleeding-atmosphere-around-a-warm-exoplanet_19125041621_o.
