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Via Prison Planet.com \u00bb Sci Tech<\/p>\n

London Telegraph<\/a>
\nMay 25, 2010<\/p>\n

The Hubble space telescope has discovered a planet in our galaxy in the process of being devoured by the star that it orbits.<\/p>\n

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The doomed planet, dubbed WASP-12b, has the highest known surface temperature of any planet in the Milky Way – around 2,800F (1,500C).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But it could be enveloped by its own parent star over the next ten million years, the paper’s authors have concluded.<\/p>\n

Using a new instrument called the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph that was installed on Hubble in 2009, the researchers observed how the planet was whipped into an elongated shape by gravitational forces.<\/p>\n

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