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Exoplanet is shrinking before the X-ray eyes of NASA's Chandra spacecraft: 'The future for this baby planet doesn’t look great'

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft, astronomers have witnessed a distant, Jupiter-size world "shrinking" as its host star bombards it with heavy radiation. The extrasolar planet, or "exoplanet," is ...
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'The future for this baby planet doesn’t look great.' Exoplanet is shrinking before the X-ray eyes of NASA's Chandra space telescope

"It's almost unfathomable to imagine what is happening to this planet. The planet's atmosphere simply cannot withstand the high X-ray dose it's receiving from its star." Using NASA's Chandra X-ray ...