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Mount Everest, Comet and Orbit

Astronomers discover doomed planet shedding a Mount Everest's worth of material every orbit, leaving behind a comet-like tail

Scientists have discovered a planet that is literally falling apart as it orbits its star. Located about 140 light-years from Earth in the Pegasus constellation , this doomed world named BD+05 4868 Ab whips around its star once every 30.5 hours — so close that its surface is being scorched into magma and vaporizing into space.

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Planet Being Boiled Apart Like A Comet Sheds Mount Everest's Worth Of Material Every Orbit

Planet BD+054868Ab is one of only four known disintegrating planets, worlds close enough to their star that they end up being roasted and torn apart. But this little world is unique in the extent of this process;

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A Planet is Falling Apart in Real-Time—Leaving Behind a Massive Comet-Like Tail!

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have found a doomed planet that sheds an incredible amount of material—as much as a Mount Everest’s worth of mass with each orbit reports Space.com. This rare exoplanet,

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Drones can deliver supplies on Mount Everest this year, and it may change climbing forever

A new drone service is delivering supplies such as ladders and oxygen cylinders on Mount Everest, making it safer for Sherpas ...

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Get to Base Camp Late! Tips We Learned at a Mount Everest Safety Briefing.

Our Everest correspondent recently attended a pre-climb meeting held by guiding company Seven Summit Treks in downtown ...

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Famed Sherpa guide will attempt to climb Mt. Everest for a 31st time, breaking his own record

One of the greatest mountain guides, Kami Rita, will attempt to scale the world's highest peak for the 31st time — and ...

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'Losing Mount Everest every day': A planet’s scorching death caught 140 light-years from Earth

A planet 140 light-years away is disintegrating fast—losing a Mount Everest’s mass daily. Its 9-million-km rocky tail marks a ...

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Sherpa climber set to break his own record for ascents of Mount Everest

Veteran Sherpa climber Kami Rita is preparing for a record-breaking ascent of Mount Everest. The 55-year-old, considered one ...

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How High Can A Helicopter Fly? (And Can It Get To The Top Of Mount Everest?)

Didier Delsalle landed on the top of Everest in a Eurocopter AS 350 B3. This feat went down as the highest helicopter landing ...

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Mount Everest guide Ang Dawa Sherpa moves to Vermont and earns his CDL with support from VSAC

Ang Dawa Sherpa nearly perished on his first Everest climb because he wasn’t prepared; then he went to school in Nepal for a mountain guide degree. After moving to the US, he wasn’t surprised to find ...

One Orbit, One Everest Lost: A Planet Evaporates Into a 9-Million-Kilometer Tail

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

Climbers Expedite the Acclimatization Process on Mt. Everest with Gas

The 2025 climbing season in the Himalayas has begun without controversy. Climbing techniques have evolved over centuries, often creating controversy and debate.