Evaporating extrasolar planet

[MazeleyFanClub]

Hmm. How would this be happening though? Planets form through accretion. If it was being burned off like this, it could never have even accreted in the first place. So either the star got more luminous, the planet got closer to the star, or some kind of weird reaction produced new, lighter material that wasn't there during accretion, and subsequently started getting burned off.

[scoutkidd]

schok!

[johnsmdm]

they were unable to escape..all was lost..

[valeriomax]

Even as a piece of animation, it seems to show a gross error: the tail of evaporating gas should be pointing in an almost-straight cometlike tail.

[Blueknightex]

Does anyone here know where I can find, clear real images of extrasolar planets in High Resolution?

[DevilDave1980]

You can't. well... not yet. not until they upgrade hubble. ..or build a new one. Astronomers all over the world would love a good, hi-res pic of an exoplanet, ideally Gliese 581c or Gliese 581d, but the light of stars (even Gliese, a red dwarf) is so bright that it renders Hubble blind to exoplanets.

[Blueknightex]

Yeah, I heard that they already launched a new telescope... I wonder when will they show us those pictures of Gliese 581c or Gliese 581d?

[DeadliestReflex]

ya the gliese c really interested me! i dought itll be like earth though

[punji73]

what we need to do is master light speed travel then build a probe to head out there to one of those worlds, it would take like 40 or 50 yrs but once there it could take some pics and send them back to us within a few mins. im afraid that wont be within our life time of course but may not be too far off

[DoctorPloppers]

@punji73 Light travel isn't enough, you could use negative matter to travel afely through black holes or to acheive a form of "warp drive"

[punji73]

@DoctorPloppers ah so thats how we could achieve warp speed, but i imagine they would learn to break the light speed barrier before they come up with that so we would have to make do in the mean time. also according to the law of reletivity warp speed would also make astronauts of the future time travellers!

[DeadliestReflex]

can,t. i dont think they have any yet...cuz some of them are like over 150 light years away... any way they havnt founf any earth like planets out of the 250+ planets they have found. and im not sure bout rogue planets.

[back2nrml]

i always get panic attacks see this type of shit. alive or not one day something big is gonna happen and im tuck onthis soil that has bin walked on by satins minion for decades. they are called liberals and politions. the secret world we dont know about but they choose are destiny. fuck this world i hope we get struck with a huge rock. Like goerge carlin says i always hope natural disaster get worse! all these hypicrites need to die its time to go to heaven

[Nyctomancer]

All I can say is...

lol wut?

[lukecaparas]

red supergiant swells a jupiter like planet

[Farid51]

It's an animation ;)

[amratheblack]

idiots.

[kmaijala]

Is this real or an animation? I thought that the way to observe extrasolar planets was to look for disturbances while the planet was passing in front of the star.