<p>This radiation from star CoRoT-2a is stripping about five million tonnes of matter from the planet CoRoT-2b every second, suggests data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. <br /><br />CoRoT-2b has a mass about thrice that of Jupiter and 1,000 times that of Earth.<br />It orbits its parent star at a distance roughly 10 times more than that between the Earth and the Moon, the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics reports. <br /><br />CoRoT-2 and CoRoT-2b -- so named because the French Space Agency's Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits (CoRoT) satellite discovered them in 2008 -- is a relatively nearby neighbour of the Solar System at a distance of 880 light years, according to a NASA statement.<br /><br />"This planet is being absolutely fried by its star," says study co-author Sebastian Schroeter, University of Hamburg Germany. "What may be even stranger is that this planet may be affecting the behaviour of the star that is blasting it."<br /><br />According to optical and X-ray data, the CoRoT-2 system is estimated to be between about 100 million and 300 million years old, meaning that the star is fully formed.</p>
<p>This radiation from star CoRoT-2a is stripping about five million tonnes of matter from the planet CoRoT-2b every second, suggests data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. <br /><br />CoRoT-2b has a mass about thrice that of Jupiter and 1,000 times that of Earth.<br />It orbits its parent star at a distance roughly 10 times more than that between the Earth and the Moon, the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics reports. <br /><br />CoRoT-2 and CoRoT-2b -- so named because the French Space Agency's Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits (CoRoT) satellite discovered them in 2008 -- is a relatively nearby neighbour of the Solar System at a distance of 880 light years, according to a NASA statement.<br /><br />"This planet is being absolutely fried by its star," says study co-author Sebastian Schroeter, University of Hamburg Germany. "What may be even stranger is that this planet may be affecting the behaviour of the star that is blasting it."<br /><br />According to optical and X-ray data, the CoRoT-2 system is estimated to be between about 100 million and 300 million years old, meaning that the star is fully formed.</p>