Death Star's X-Ray's Decimating Nearby Planet
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Channel: VideoFromSpace · 2011 · Science & Technology
The Chandra Observatory has witnessed the CoRoT-2a star blasting x-rays at its poor neighbor at a rate hundred's of thousands of times more powerful than Earth receives from the Sun. The planet is dissipating 5 million tons of matter every second.
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