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Ben Turner

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: A completely new phenomenon astronomers spot a planet causing its star to constantly explode | History Defined

An artist's illustration of HIP 67522 b's star launching a burst of plasma at the planet.

Astronomers have captured the first evidence of a "planet with a death wish" — an alien world that's orbiting so close to its star and so fast that it's causing the star to cook it to death with stellar explosions.

The planet, called HIP 67522 b, is a wispy, Jupiter-size planet bound on a tight, seven-day orbit around its host star, HIP 67522.

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