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ScienceCasts - Worlds within Worlds - HD

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Michael500ca

3 views • Oct 08, 2015

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Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an immense cloud of hydrogen evaporating from a Neptune-sized planet named GJ 436b. The planet’s atmosphere is evaporating because of extreme irradiation from its parent star.

Credit: NASA

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