Planet caught in a gravitational ‘tidal storm’ is so hot that it glows

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Planet caught in a gravitational ‘tidal storm’ is so hot that it glows

One rocky planet might be so hot it glows

ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser

A distant world is being stretched by the powerful gravity of its neighbouring planets and star to extremes never seen before in a rocky planet. The stretching is so intense that this strange world’s surface is probably entirely molten and so hot that it glows.

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at the University of California, Riverside and his colleagues spotted this unusual planet in a system already known to have one larger world, a giant planet circling the star once every 55 days…

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