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WASP-12b, The hot Jupiter planet, located in the constellation Auriga roughly 1,200 light-years from Earth, is being torn apart by its parent star due to its extremely close orbit, taking only 1.1 days to complete a full orbit.
The latest information about the exoplanet WASP-12b reveals that it is spiraling towards its host star, heading towards certain destruction in approximately 3 million years.
The star's intense heat is stripping away and devouring the planet's atmosphere, with WASP-12b being almost two times the size of Jupiter and reaching temperatures of around 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,210 degrees Celsius). The extreme gravity from the star is stretching this gas giant into an egg-like shape while slowly cannibalizing it, leading to its eventual consumption by the star in a few million years.
This doomed exoplanet reflects very little light and has been described as "black as asphalt" or "pitch black". The decay rate of its orbit has been refined to 29.81±0.94 milliseconds per year, indicating an estimated lifetime of 3.16±0.10 million years.
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