Gas giant “WASP-12b” is certainly not the best place to be. The planet shouldn’t even exist says some astronomers! The planet is so close to WASP-12 (WASP-12b’s parent star) that the star’s tidal forces are distorting the planet into an egg shape and striping it’s atmosphere away at a rate of about 189 quadrillion tons per year! This planet is one of the hottest planets that humans have EVER discovered! Its temperature ranges from 3,800-4,100 degrees (You could bake a pizza in less than 7 seconds!)! The reason why WASP-12b is a head-scratcher to scientists is because it’s a gas planet, gas planets typically form 100’s of millions of miles away from it’s parent star. Astonishingly, WASP-12b is wayyyy larger than Jupiter and lies only a little over 2 million miles away! That’s closer than Mercury is to our sun! How did this beast of a planet get there?