Suicidal Tendencies

A planet that is about 325 light-years away from planet Earth is on a collision course with its star within the constellation Phoenix. The planet, named WASP-18b, has 1 million years to live according to the planet’s discoverer Coel Hellier, a professor of astrophysics at Keele University in England.

Identified as a suicidal planet by astronomers, WASP-18b is a fiery planet so close to its star that it is triggering tremendous “plasma tides” on the star which in turn will be engulfed by the star, WASP-18.

The planet orbits its star in less that a day, and is 10 times as big as the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter.