Hubble eyes sun-roasted exoplanet15 July 2010, 2:30 pmGas giant's atmosphere blown into comet-like tail Observations from the
Hubble Space Telescope's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) have determined that gas giant HD 209458b is having a really bad hair day, orbiting so close to its star that its atmosphere is being stripped away by cosmic winds and cast into space in a "comet-like tail".…
Source: The Register
