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Bookmark or Share- WASP-12 b - Science@NASAWASP-12 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a F-type star. Its mass is 1.465 Jupiters, it takes 1.1 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.0232 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2008.
- Doomed egg-shaped exoplanet is death-spiraling into its starAstronomers have discovered that a distant, scorching hot planet twice the size of Jupiter is on a death-spiral trajectory that will send it careening into its parent star. A crash is expected to...
- WASP-12b - WikipediaWASP-12b is a hot Jupiter [5] (a class of extrasolar planets) orbiting the star WASP-12, discovered in April of 2008, by the SuperWASP planetary transit survey. [6][1] The planet takes only a little over one Earth day to orbit its star, in contrast to about 365.25 days for the Earth to orbit the Sun.
- WASP-12 b: An Egg-shaped Exoplanet - Science@NASAAlmost two times the size of our Jupiter, WASP-12b is a sizzling gas giant whose temperature is approximately 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,210 degrees Celsius). Gravity causes enormous tidal forces which are stretching the planet into the shape of an egg.
- WASP-12b: The First Carbon-Rich Exoplanet - UCF Planetary Sciences GroupThe transiting exoplanet WASP-12b is located some 870 light-years from Earth. This extremely irradiated planet orbits its Sun-like, G0 parent star in just over 26 hours, resulting in a dayside temperature of ~2,700 K (4,400 F).
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