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One Orbit, One Everest Lost: A Planet Evaporates Into a 9-Million-Kilometer Tail
Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...
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Astronomers discover doomed planet shedding a Mount Everest's worth of material every orbit, leaving behind a comet-like tail
Astronomers discovered a planet that orbits its star so closely that its surface is being scorched into magma and vaporizing ...
MIT astronomers discover crumbling planet; may offer insight into Earth-like conditions in space
The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...
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Planet Being Boiled Apart Like A Comet Sheds Mount Everest's Worth Of Material Every Orbit
The stellar wind spreads the dust particles ahead and behind the world. Its loss of mass rate is estimated to be 10 Earths ...
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 ...
How High Can A Helicopter Fly? (And Can It Get To The Top Of Mount Everest?)
Mount Everest stands tall, but can the maneuverability and landing versatility of a helicopter allow it to land on the summit ...
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Drones can deliver supplies on Mount Everest this year, and it may change climbing forever
Around the same time, Raj Bikram, CEO of Airlift Nepal, was in touch with the Khumbu municipality for 3D-mapping Mount Everest using ... when there were no satellite phones or the kind of weather ...
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Astronomers discover doomed planet shedding a Mount Everest's worth of material every orbit, leaving behind a comet-like tail
the planet sheds as much mass of molten rock as an entire Mount Everest. "The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers long, or roughly half of the planet's entire ...