Hellish conditions have warped an Earth-like planet into an egg

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Hellish conditions have warped an Earth-like planet into an egg

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Exoplanets that get too close to their parent stars experience harsh conditions

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A distant Earth-sized planet is orbiting so close to its parent star that gravity is stretching it to an extreme degree, turning it egg-shaped.

A handful of known exoplanets are extremely close to their parent stars, which exposes them to incredibly harsh conditions. These “ultra-short *******” planets – they take less than a day to complete one loop around their stars – are blasted with radiation and often have surfaces composed entirely of lava.

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at the University of Hawaiʻi and his colleagues have discovered…

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