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Nearby exoplanet has grown a tail 44 times longer than Earth — and it's acting like a giant 'stellar windsock'
The exoplanet, WASP-69 b, is a gas giant. It's around the same size as Jupiter but less than a third as massive, and orbits a main sequence star roughly 160 light-years from Earth. It is very ...
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NASA Astronomers Discover a Planet With a Tail Over 350,000 Miles Long
WASP-69 b, a distant gas giant located 163 light-years from Earth, has been observed with a striking comet-like tail composed of escaping gases. This extraordinary feature is not just an aesthetic ...