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A Dying Hot Jupiter and The Birth of Carbon Planets

We think we discovered a Hot Jupiter being consumed by its star! Hank Green explains this and the birth of carbon planets in this episode of SciShow News.

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Sources:
http://exoplanet.hanno-rein.de/planet/PTFO%208-8695%20b/
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2041-8205/718/2/L145/meta;jsessionid=094ED7E6AB62E51CD5AD145DBAF1A105.c1.iopscience.cld.iop.org
http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02701
http://news.rice.edu/2016/06/09/likely-new-planet-may-be-in-slow-death-spiral/
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/164353/20160611/early-death-for-a-giant-alien-world-baby-planet-ptfo-8-8695-b-being-destroyed-by-host-star.htm
http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/young-star-gas-giant-exoplanet-03937.html

What are Hot Jupiters?

http://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae465.cfm
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/tables/elabund.html
http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.06943
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2016-12
http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FIAU%2FIAU5_S265%2FS1743921310000311a.pdf&code=fdcb2bc75739ce4f14e1b68b258da7cd
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.0574v3.pdf
http://www.eoht.info/page/CHNOPS

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