Hellish circumstances have warped an Earth-like planet into an egg

A distant Earth-sized planet is orbiting so near its guardian star that gravity is stretching it to an excessive diploma, turning it egg-shaped.

A handful of recognized exoplanets are extraordinarily shut to their guardian stars, which exposes them to extremely harsh circumstances. These “ultra-short period” planets – they take lower than a day to finish one loop round their stars – are blasted with radiation and sometimes have surfaces composed solely of lava.

Now, Fei Dai on the College of Hawaiʻi and his colleagues have found…