Environmental

Newfound exoplanet may turn to dust

A planet’s dust cloud may explain strange patterns of light from its star.

MIT-(ENEWSPF)- Researchers at MIT, NASA and elsewhere have detected a possible planet, some 1,500 light years away, that appears to be evaporating under the blistering heat of its parent star. The scientists infer that a long tail of debris — much like the tail of a comet — is following the planet, and that this tail may tell the story of the…

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