When you think of tails, cats, dogs and mammals come to mind — not exoplanets.
However, according to a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers have discovered that a massive, gaseous, exoplanet in space has a giant tail. Known as WASP-69b — an exoplanet that is nearly the same size as Jupiter and located approximately 160 light years from Earth — it has a comet-like tail that trails the planet for at least 350,000 miles. Notably, the tail is essentially the planet’s atmosphere, which it appears to be losing.
