a planet's suicide

INILAH.COM,Jakarta - Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a giant planet that will kill myself. This strange planet so close to its star, and so huge that trigger large plasma currents.

This planet is slowly dying. Planet WASP-18b may have lived for 1 million years. said planets Cóel Hellier inventor, professor of astronomy at Keele University in England. Hellier reported on the planet who committed suicide was in the Journal Nature

Stars called WASP-18 and the planet WASP-18b. Planet circling a star in the constellation Phoenix and located about 325 light years from Earth, which means that as a neighboring galaxy earth.

This planet has a distance of 3 million kilometers from its star, 1 / 50 the distance between the earth and the sun, and therefore the temperature of about 2.100 degrees Celsius

Size 10 times larger than Jupiter and the close distance to the star makes the possibility of this planet to die, says Hellier

Like most planets outside the solar system the Earth, this planet can not be seen directly with telescopes. The astronomers found the planet by looking through the light from the star each time the planet appears between the star and the earth

Astronomers have so far found more than 370 planets outside the solar

system. This one is "yet another weird one in the Exoplanet Menagerie,"

said planets specialist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

So far astronomers have found more than 379 planets outside the solar system. And this is a strange Exoplanet other, experts said Alan Boss of the planet Carnegie Institution in Washington.