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Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporized by stellar heat, trailed by a comet-like tail of mineral dust ...
Finding a Disintegrating Planet . The astronomers found what they named BD+05 4868 Ab while hunting for exoplanets. When doing so, they look for short dips in starlight brightness that occur ...
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 ...
"The disintegrating planet orbiting BD+05 4868 A has the most prominent dust tails to date," said Marc Hon, a postdoctoral researcher at the MIT TESS Science Office and the leader of the MIT study.
A large glacier in Antarctica that could raise sea levels by several feet is disintegrating faster than last predicted, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience.
The artist's concept depicts a comet-like tail of a possible disintegrating super Mercury-size planet candidate as it transits its parent star named KIC 12557548.
Our galactic neighbour is starting to fall apart after colliding with a nearby galaxy. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are the two brightest galaxies that orbit our own, lying just 160,000 ...