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Tail, Planet and Star Wars

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Planet with comet-like tail observed disintegrating near its star

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -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 up to about 5.

Astronomers find 'Tatooine' planet orbiting two stars

Astronomers believe they’ve discovered a "Tatooine"-like planet orbiting two stars in a galaxy far, far away. The planet is orbiting two brown dwarfs, which are also known as failed stars. It’s about 120 light years away from our solar system.

Newsweek on MSN · 1d

Astronomers Discover Planet With a Tail

"The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers [5.6 million miles] long," said MIT astronomer Marc Hon.

Planet Sizes And Locations In Our Solar System 23 April

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

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Remember when Pluto was a planet? Here’s 10 photos NASA took of the dwarf planet

Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

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Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists say

NEW YORK — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday.

India Today on MSN1d

New planet is breaking apart, losing material equal to a Mount Everest per orbit

About 5,800 planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, have been discovered since the 1990s. Of those, only four ...

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