Planets beware! Get too close to your parent star and you will vaporize.
EATEN AWAY. Artist’s depiction of a cometlike wind of hydrogen gas (blue) escaping from the outer atmosphere of the extrasolar planet HD209458b, which tightly orbits its parent star (yellow). European Space Agency
That’s the message of a study that examines a planet residing within roasting distance of the star it orbits.
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