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NASA's Hubble
Telescope Discovers An
'Evaporating' Planet
(usatoday.com)

! Posted by BeauHD on Saturday December 15, 2018 @02:00AM from the quick-before-it's-
Researchers at the University of Geneva Switzerland
have used NASA's Hubble telescope to find an
exoplanet that's evaporating. The exoplanet, GJ 3470b,
shows signs of losing hydrogen in its atmosphere,
causing it to shrink. USA Today reports: The study is
part of exploration into "hot Neptunes," planets that
are the size of Neptune, sit very close to their star, and
have atmospheres as hot at 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit,

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says NASA. Finding a "hot Neptune" is rare because

they sit so close to their star and tend to evaporate
more quickly. In the case of GJ 3470b, scientists
classify it as a "warmer" Neptune because it sits
farther away from its star. The exoplanet discovered by
astronauts is losing its atmosphere at a rate 100 times
faster than a previous "warmer" Neptune planet
discovered a few years before, according to a study
published Thursday in the journal "Astronomy &
Astrophysics." The planet sits 3.7 million miles from
its star. For comparison, Earth is 92.9 million miles
from the sun. Researchers say these "hot Neptune"
planets shrink in size and morph into "Super Earths,"
versions of our planet that are massive and more
rocky.
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Fake gas leak (Score:1)
by Tablizer ( 95088 )
Global hydrogen loss is Fake News, believe me!
CNN runs that #HubbleRustBucket, and it still
found NO credible evidence of Orion collusion.
They can stick it in their black-hole. Maybe they'll
find Hillary's emails in the hole, ya think? The
planet's hydrogen is doing the best ever, setting all
kinds of records. Make Gas Great Again!
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Re: Fake gas leak (Score:2)

by tsa ( 15680 )
Of course itâ(TM)s fake news. An respectable
organisation like NASA would never use
Fahrenheit.

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Fahrenheit degrees (Score:3, Funny)
by blindvic ( 5352889 ) on Saturday December 15,
2018 @02:07AM (#57807250)
> as hot at 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit Are the still
using Fahrenheit degrees in scientific domains?
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Re: (Score:2)
by Scarletdown ( 886459 )
The planet sits 3.7 million metric miles from its
star. For comparison, Earth is 92.9 million metric
miles from the sun.
There. Happy now?
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Re: (Score:1)
by Anonymous Coward
Much.
  What now is remaining and is a bit saddening, is
that the USAians need to be reminded that the
metric system is what the scientific world uses.
Personally in my home, I measure lengths with
steps, palmlengths, and fingerwidths, while time is
mostly with cycles of the moon and hearststrokes
with sunrise as the reference moment. Yet, I am
humble enough to not go around and talk to others
by using these.
Thank you.

Re: (Score:1)
by Anonymous Coward

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If only we could invent people who would take raw

stories, fact check them, fix grammar and spelling,
and correct the units.
We could call them "Slashdot Editors"
If only.
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Re: (Score:2)
by DNS-and-BIND ( 461968 )
The angry outburst against an American site using
American units is so cliche by now. It's the new
"Natalie Portman hot grits" of Slashdot.
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Re: (Score:1)
by Anonymous Coward
No it's not at all. It's just intellectually backwards
within the scientific, engineering and technical
worlds in 2018.

Re: (Score:1)
by DNS-and-BIND ( 461968 )
Yeah, see, those backward Americans, landing
space probes on other planets and curing diseases.
These angry outbursts occur every time someone
uses Fahrenheit, and it just gets funnier every time.
Natalie Portman hot grits!

Re: Fahrenheit degrees (Score:3)

by tsa ( 15680 )
One doesnâ(TM)t rule out the other. Fact is that
America lives on its own planet as far as its
inhabitants are concerned. That is often annoying
for the other Earthlings.

Can we stop complaining about Imperial units?

(Score:2)
by Solandri ( 704621 )
If it bugs you that much, just install an extension

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[google.com]. Problem solved. Unless of course

your real goal is just to complain about anything
American.
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Re:Fahrenheit degrees (Score:5, Funny)

by CrimsonAvenger ( 580665 ) on Saturday
December 15, 2018 @07:53AM (#57807776)
Are the still using Fahrenheit degrees in scientific
domains?
USA Today. It's about as scientific a domain as the
The Times of London or Der Tagesspiegel.
Your point was? I mean other, than trying to look
smarter than you are....
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Re: Fahrenheit degrees (Score:3)

by jddj ( 1085169 )
That's what the "astronauts" who discovered it said.

Re: (Score:2)
by AxeTheMax ( 1163705 )
WTF indeed. Assume everything you read here (or
on USA Today) is written by a journalist and
therefore liable to be utter garbage, until proved
otherwise.
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Re: âoe... The exoplanet discovered by astron

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by drinkypoo ( 153816 )
<martin.espinoza@gmail.com> on Saturday
December 15, 2018 @07:33AM (#57807740)

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Homepage Journal
Total bullshit. The mainstream news has been
misreporting science due to incompetence since
time was time. Literally every time I read an article
about something I understand on a technical level I
find that the author has got important details wrong,
either because they failed to comprehend them
entirely, or because they tried to dumb them down
and failed miserably because you can only omit so
much before what you are saying becomes outright
incorrect.
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Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward
Not only science. A friend in economics complains
about the same: economics coverage cuts corners
and twist facts. A friend in military complains
about the same: coverage of conflicts cuts corners
and twists facts. I'm in computing, and the same
happens. A logical step would be to conclude that
most news are written by incompetent people.

Re: (Score:2)
by grep -v '.*' * ( 780312 )
you can only omit so much before what you are
saying becomes outright incorrect
And on a related subject, from that beacon of
wisdom, Barbie: "Math is Tough."
[youtube.com]

To be pedantic... (Score:2)
by wierdling ( 609715 )
It isn't "NASA's" telescope. It is a joint venture
between the ESA and NASA.
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Re: (Score:2)
by CanadianMacFan ( 1900244 )
And how can a gas planet evaporate? Or more
specifically Hydrogen gas evaporate? The
atmosphere, which is made up of the gas, is
escaping.

That Thanos Snap (Score:2)

by bytethese ( 1372715 )
It's evaporating planets now?

Miles and Fahrenheit ... (Score:2)

by kbahey ( 102895 )
Miles and Fahrenheit ... Wow ...

"The exoplanet discovered by astronauts..."

(Score:2)
by edi_guy ( 2225738 )
Seems like the fact that we've sent astronauts to a
star 97 light years away would be the bigger
headline.

Re: "The exoplanet discovered by astronauts..."

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grammar and spelling, and correct the units. We
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