Languages: English. Astronomers have discovered a doomed, disintegrating planet with a comet-like tail that is shedding a Mount Everest's worth of material each time it orbits its star.

Astronomers have discovered a distant exoplanet with a tail that stretches over 5.5 million miles long. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares / MIT illustration Astronomers have accidentally found a planet ...

And as it decays, it is leaving behind a tail of matter like a comet. The planet BD+05 4868 A is located 140 light-years away, and is around the mass of Mercury. Unlike Mercury, though ...

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A disintegrating planet orbits a giant star. “The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers long,” says Marc Hon, a postdoc in MIT’s Kavli Institute for ...

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“The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometres long, or roughly half of the planet’s entire orbit,” said Marc Hon, one of the authors of the study from MI ...

WASHINGTON: Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporised by stellar heat, trailed by a comet-like tail of ...

Astronomers have spotted a first-of-its-kind rapidly crumbling planet outside the Solar System that is leaving behind a “gargantuan” comet-like tail of debris. It is so close to its star that ...

A disintegrating planet orbits a giant star. “The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers long,” says Marc Hon, a postdoc in MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and ...

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An artistic rendering of an exoplanet in a tight orbit, followed by a dusty, comet-like tail of debris. Jose-Luis Olivares / MIT Astronomers have spotted a distant planet shedding matter with each ...