Friday 12 August 2022

Brightest stars in the night sky can strip Neptune-sized planets to their rocky cores

Over the last 25 years, astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around stars in our galaxy, but more than 99% of them orbit smaller stars—from red dwarfs to stars slightly more massive than our sun, which is considered an average-sized star.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-science-news/brightest-stars-in-the-night-sky-can-strip-neptune-sized-planets-to-their-rocky-cores