Source: ESA/YouTube
Images taken by the optical and radar instruments on board ESA's Envisat Satellite orbiting 800 km above the Earth are set to relaxing music. This video was originally produced for Lufthansa inflight entertainment.
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Sep 11
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Sep 11
CoRoT-2A: Star blasts Planet with X-rays
Source: NASA/CXC-Chandra
Image credits:X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ of Hamburg/S.Schröter et al;
Optical: NASA/NSF/IPAC-Caltech/UMass/2MASS, UNC/CTIO/PROMPT;
Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
A nearby star, named CoRoT-2a, has a planet in close orbit around it. The separation between the star and planet is only about 3 percent of the distance between the Earth and the Sun, causing some exotic effects not seen in our solar system. Chandra has now found that the planet is under heavy X-ray bombardment from its star. (Read more)
