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MIT astronomers discover a planet which is disintegrating so fast it has a comet-like appearance

Summary by Yourweather.co.uk | Meteored
MIT astronomers have discovered a planet around 140 light years away, which is crumbling at a rapid rate.Image of a planet falling apart. Credit: Pixabay. The planet is a similar mass to Mercury, but it circles 20 times closer to its star than Mercury does to the sun. As it is so close to its star, the planet is likely to be covered in magma, which could be boiling off into space. As the planet rotates around the star, it sheds a huge amount of …
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Yourweather.co.uk | Meteored broke the news in on Sunday, June 1, 2025.
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