We've Discovered a Planet That Ignores Physics Completely

Scientists have found a planet so strange, it seems to ignore the rules of physics we know! 🌌 This wild discovery, called WASP-12b, is a gas giant so close to its star that it’s stretched into the shape of a football instead of being round. 🏈 Not only that, but it’s so hot—about 4,600°F (2,550°C)—that it’s literally being vaporized by its star’s intense heat. 🌞 What’s crazier? Its years last just 26 hours, because it zooms around its star at insane speeds. 🌪️ Plus, the planet’s surface is pitch black, absorbing almost all the light that hits it—like a cosmic sponge. 🌠 Credit: Jupiter's Great Red Spot: By David Ladd/NASA, https://images.nasa.gov/details/GSFC_... TESS: By NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/tess/ Venus Transit: By NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO, https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10996/ Hidden Planets: By NASA - JPLPlanetQuest / YouTube, https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/coro... Land of Three Suns: By NASA/JPL-Caltech, https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia03... CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... planet HD 189733b: By ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESA, M. Kornmesser - https://esahubble.org/images/heic1312a/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Koenigstuhl1: By Legacy Surveys / D.Lang (Perimeter Institute) & Meli thev, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Animation is created by Bright Side. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD... Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook:   / brightside   Instagram:   / brightside.official   TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.of... Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices