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Exoplanet WASP-69b has a cometlike tail – this unique feature is helping scientists like me learn more about how planets evolve

  • Written by Dakotah Tyler, Ph.D. Candidate in Astrophysics, University of California, Los Angeles
imageWASP-69b closely orbits its sun. W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko

Located 163 light-years from Earth, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet named WASP-69b offers astrophysicists a window into the dynamic processes that shape planets across the galaxy. The star it orbits is baking and stripping away the planet’s atmosphere, and that escaped...

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