A team of British scientists is shortage a planet with a volume ten times superior to the one of Jupiter that orbit so near its first star that the stellar currents must to him have lead already to the destruction.

In a novel study that publishes the British magazine “Nature today”, a group of astronomers of the University of Keele (the United Kingdom) assures that this planet baptized like WASP-18b is a peculiarity in the world of astronomy and that the probability of observing a similar phenomenon is of one between thousands.

“The Hot” Jupiter group of, that is to say, those is a planet of that forms far from the star around which they orbit and that comes near to the same throughout the years with the help of the stellar currents.

Nevertheless, the WASP-18b is so great and it is at the moment so near his first star that the current mentioned ones already must directly have taken to him to hit against the star.

In fact, the survival of this type of planets usually is not superior to a million years, a landmark that has beaten fully by the mentioned planet.

Like possible causes, the scientists point that the stellar currents of that system are less strong than those of our Solar System, which would explain the longevity of the WASP-18b.

Another possibility would be that another exogenous element not yet identified is the one that avoids the collision of the planet with its star and its consequent destruction.