Exoplanet Pi Mensae b, illustration
Exoplanet Pi Mensae b, illustration. Pi Mensae b is a super-Jupiter orbiting so close to its star that it has become tidally locked with one side permanently facing the star and red-hot. It’s atmosphere is being stripped away in a comet-like tail by the solar wind flowing from the star.
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Photo credit: © RON MILLER / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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