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Exoplanet ... or eggs-oplanet? 🥚
Some planets are so close to their stars that they're being pulled and stretched as the stars consume them. WASP-12b is one such doomed world. 🍳 https://go.nasa.gov/3IvnUjZ
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WASP-12b 3D Model - Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

The doomed egg-shaped exoplanet WASP-12b is a hot Jupiter that orbits so close to its parent star, it's being torn apart.
Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
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in reply to NASA

August Alondra
August Alondra
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does this mean WASP - 12b doesn’t spin on its own axis?

If it is spinning on its own axis, why hasn’t it been pulled equally on all sides?

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