APOD4.5

This is planet HD 209458b and it is evaporating because it's too close to that big fiery thing in the background. The planet is a hot Jupiter type system because it's like Jupiter but orbiting close to the sun like Mercury. It is claimed (by spectroscopic evidence) that the planet has water vapor, which would be the first planet recorded to have water outside of Earth. This is an artist's rendition however, because the planet is too small to be imaged.