Although it’s been previously studied, astronomers have just confirmed that the blazing-hot world is trailed by a 350,000-mile-long (563,270 kilometers) gaseous tail. WASP-69, given the formal ...

Observations of Exoplanet WASP-69b has uncovered a 350,000-mile-long comet-like tail. The tail is a result of its escaping ...

Perhaps most striking is the discovery of WASP-69b’s extended helium tail, which my team detected trailing behind the planet for at least 350,000 miles (about 563,000 kilometers).

The stream of helium trailing WASP-69b, ... this exoplanet has a 350,000-mile-long tail of helium gas that billows out behind it like a comet’s. WASP-69b is slightly larger than Jupiter, ...

Exoplanet WASP-69b has massive comet-like tail - 350,000-miles-long! Watch on . ... we suspect that the period of atmospheric loss concluded long ago. The WASP-69b system is a gem, ...

The strange alien planet WASP-69b is trailing a huge comet-like tail 350,000 miles long as its atmosphere is blown off by its parent star. (Image credit: Adam Makarenko/W. M. Keck Observatory) ...

Scientists previously speculated that WASP-69 b might have a comet-like tail made up of some of the gas it leaks into space, but this had never been confirmed. However, in a study published Jan. 9 ...

Astronomers have discovered that a gigantic planet has been hiding a 350,000-mile-long tail as its atmosphere seeps away. The exoplanet known as WASP-69 is gargantuan—roughly the size of Jupiter ...

The exoplanet's tail is astonishingly long, extending more than 7.5 times its radius behind it, or 350,000 miles, which is roughly 1.5 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

The paper focused on eight new species of parasitoid wasps belonging to the Megalyridae wasp family that were found in late Cretaceous Period ambers. About the new wasp species, Cretolyra shawi , Shaw ...

Observations of Exoplanet WASP-69b has uncovered a 350,000-mile-long comet-like tail. The tail is a result of its escaping atmosphere. Credit: Space.com | animation: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam ...