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Astronomers discover a planet that’s rapidly disintegrating, producing a comet-like tail

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MIT astronomers have discovered a planet some 140 light-years from Earth that is rapidly crumbling to pieces.

The disintegrating world is about the mass of Mercury, although it circles about 20 times closer to its star than Mercury does to the sun, completing an orbit every 30.5 hours. At such…



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