EXOPLANETS #1 - WASP 12b

This updated video shows the new discoveries of Wasp 12b. Before the Hubble 2017 findings, we could only guess that a so hot planet would be incredible bright; however, in 2017, the Hubble discovered that Wasp 12b is black as asphalt, absorbing 94% of the light, and showing only a faint red tint caused by the extreme temperatures. Wasp 12B is so close to the star that the planet takes a little more than a day to make one orbit. At this tremendous speed, the tidal forces has distorted its 2500 degree Kelvin boiling atmosphere into a egg shape and its ripping it away at 189 quadrillion tons per year. At this speed Wasp 12B will be consumed in about 10 million years.