Exoplanets that get too near their guardian stars expertise harsh situations
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A distant Earth-sized planet is orbiting so near its guardian star that gravity is stretching it to an excessive diploma, turning it egg-shaped.
A handful of identified exoplanets are extraordinarily shut to their guardian stars, which exposes them to extremely harsh situations. These “ultra-short period” planets – they take lower than a day to finish one loop round their stars – are blasted with radiation and infrequently have surfaces composed solely of lava.
Now, Fei Dai on the College of Hawaiʻi and his colleagues have found…
