Planet WASP-12b is on a death spiral, say scientists

A Princeton-led team of astrophysicists has shown that the exoplanet WASP-12b, located 600 light-years away in the constellation Auriga, is spiraling in toward its host star, heading toward certain destruction in about 3 million years. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/01/07/planet-wasp-12b-death-spiral-say-scientists