The brightest stars in the night sky can strip Neptune-sized planets of their rocky cores
Artist’s impression of a Neptune-sized planet, left, around a blue A-type star. UC Berkeley astronomers have discovered a hard-to-find gas giant around one of these stars bright, but short-lived, just on the edge of Neptune’s hot desert where the star’s strong radiation likely strips any giant planet of its gas. Credit: Steven Giacalone, UC Berkeley …
