In the Media

MIT researchers have uncovered BD+05 4868 Ab, “a planet is disintegrating into boiling chunks of rock and evaporating minerals,” explains Andrew Paul for Popular Science. “Astronomers have only identified three disintegrating planets before BD+05 4868 Ab, all of which were detected over a decade ago using data collected by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope,” explains Paul. “The newest find is the most violent example yet, with the longest tail and deepest transits of the four known examples.”