Astronomers have discovered that a distant, scorching hot planet twice the size of Jupiter is on a death-spiral trajectory that will send it careening into its parent star. A crash is expected to happen relatively soon, cosmically speaking.
Researchers have predicted for some time that this planet, named WASP-12b, will eventually take a dive into its star that's located around 1,400 light years from Earth. However, these new findings have shortened the time WASP-12b has left.
