Hubble observes planet bleeding atmosphere 32 LY away

[LadyStanley]

https://www.accuweather.com/en/space-news/hubble-space-telescope-observes-planet-bleeding-its-atmosphere-into-space/1565450

10x close to young star than Mercury.

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[beowulf]

In the title you put 32m do you mean 32 Million? As the article stats it is 32 light years away from us.

The planet orbits the star AU Microscopii, which is 32 light-years away from Earth and the Hubble space telescope was able to detect the planet's atmospheric bleeding by measuring the variability of dips in brightness as the planet moves in front of it.

 

[JMCx4]

... The planet orbits the star AU Microscopii, which is 32 light-years away from Earth and the Hubble space telescope was able to detect the planet's atmospheric bleeding by measuring the variability of dips in brightness as the planet moves in front of it.

I wonder if we can use that method to identify multiple HFB accounts from one person.

 

[TheGreenTBer]

https://www.accuweather.com/en/space-news/hubble-space-telescope-observes-planet-bleeding-its-atmosphere-into-space/1565450

10x close to young star than Mercury.

They said it's 6 million miles from the star yet 10x closer?

I'm pretty sure Mercury is less than 60 million miles from the Sun, considering we average around 93.

 

[beowulf]

They said it's 6 million miles from the star yet 10x closer?

I'm pretty sure Mercury is less than 60 million miles from the Sun, considering we average around 93.

I think whomever wrote that article confused using miles and kilometers. Mercury is about 58M KM from the Sun not miles which is about 35M.

 

[TheGreenTBer]

I think whomever wrote that article confused using miles and kilometers. Mercury is about 58M KM from the Sun not miles which is about 35M.

Yeah that's what I thought.

I can't imagine what kind of hellish environment is in process on that planet. The radiation, the forces, etc...brutality.