Worlds within Worlds: Hubble Peels Back the Layers of a Warm Neptune

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NASA Science News for Oct. 31, 2015

Astronomers using NASA?s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an immense cloud of hydrogen evaporating from a Neptune-sized planet named GJ 436b. The planet?s atmosphere is evaporating because of extreme irradiation from its parent star.

SCIENCECAST VIDEO: http://youtu.be/TbWX7-ZoJAk

FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2015/31oct_worlds/


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