Star fattens planet as future snack

摘要

A Jupiter-Like exoplanet is being fattened up by its star ready to be eaten.rnDiscovered in 2008, WASP-i2b is a gas giant that is 1.4 times as massive as Jupiter, but is puffed up to about 1.8 times Jupiter's size. It orbits the host star in 26 hours.