Did You Know? Light-year = distance #Shorts

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]black.

[00:00:01]Our final destination is not just a strange world, but a dying one.

[00:00:07]We are going to witness the death of a planet, a process happening right now in a system 750 light-years away.

[00:00:16]The world is WASP-12b, a hot Jupiter that has made the fatal mistake of orbiting too close to its star.

[00:00:24]It is being eaten alive.

[00:00:27]The planet is so near its sun that a year lasts just over one Earth day.

[00:00:32]The star's immense gravitational pull is tearing