Gas Escapes Planet HAT-P-32b (IMAGE)
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The planet HAT-P-32b is losing so much of its atmospheric helium that the trailing gas tails are among the largest structures yet known any planet outside our solar system. Simulation ‘slice’ through the orbital plane approximating the HAT-P-32 A + b system.
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Zhang et al., Sci. Adv. 9, eadf8736 (2023).
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