Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have made a startling finding: a distant exoplanet with a tail hundreds of thousands of miles long. Planet WASP-69 b is located 164 light ...

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 ...

Dailymotion. Exoplanet WASP-69b Uncovered A 350,000-Mile-Long Comet-Like Tail. Posted: September 14, 2024 | Last updated: February 13, 2025. Observations of Exoplanet WASP-69b has uncovered a ...

This Distant Planet Has a 350,000-Mile-Long Cometlike Tail. The stream of helium trailing WASP-69b, ... The result is a tail like a comet’s that is over 350,000 miles long.

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.