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Astronomers discover strange 'comet' with tail up to 560,000km long
a team of astronomers using the w.m. keck observatory in hawaii has stumbled upon a surprising discovery: a distant exoplanet hurtling through space with a tail hundreds of thousands of kilometers long. -
Hot Jupiter is being torn apart by its host star
ngts-10b is 27 times closer to its parent star than the distance from mercury to the sun, and according to astronomers, this is a dangerous distance. -
Strange black planet 'swallowed' 94% of light
wasp-12b is a new, strange giant gas planet discovered by the hubble space telescope of the us aeronautics agency (nasa). it is almost black due to absorbing 94% of the light shining on the surface.