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                              2020 February 26
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                   NGST-10b: Discovery of a Doomed Planet
       Illustration Credit: [3]ESA, C. Carreau; Text: [4]Alex R. Howe
              ([5]NASA/[6]USRA, [7]Science Meets Fiction Blog)

   Explanation: This hot jupiter is doomed. [8]Hot jupiters are giant
   planets like [9]Jupiter that orbit much closer to their parent stars
   than [10]Mercury does to our [11]Sun. But some [12]hot jupiters are
   more extreme than others. NGTS-10b, [13]illustrated generically, is the
   closest and fastest-orbiting giant planet yet discovered, circling its
   home star in only 18 hours. [14]NGTS-10b is a little larger than
   [15]Jupiter, but it orbits less than two times the diameter of its
   parent star away from the star’s surface. When [16]a planet orbits this
   close, it is expected to [17]spiral inward, pulled down by [18]tidal
   forces to be eventually ripped apart by the star’s gravity.
   [19]NGTS-10b, discovered by researchers at the [20]University of
   Warwick, is named after the [21]ESO’s [22]Next Generation [23]Transit
   Survey, which detected the imperiled planet when it passed in front of
   its star, [24]blocking some of the light. Although the [25]violent
   demise of NGTS-10b will happen eventually, we don't yet know when.

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