Detected Planet that dissolves: ventilated and leaves a tail of mineral dust

Scientists have identified a planet that dissolved, with its surface ventilated, creating a tail of mineral dust. Since the 1990s, about 5,800 planets have been discovered outside our solar system, the so -called exoplanets. Of these, only four have been observed to decompose in orbit, such as him. The planet is the closest to the four to our solar system and gives scientists a unique opportunity to find out what is happening to these condemned worlds. The researchers noticed the planet BD+05 4868 AB while gradually becoming dust, leaving, with each of its strings around its star, a amount of material equal to the volume of Mount Everest. The dust tail that leaves behind it covers the star of the star in length. The planet is estimated to have a size somewhere between our own Hermes and the Moon. It is located in the constellation of Pegasus and is about 140 years of light from Earth. One year of light is the distance that […]
Source: News Beast

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