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Fastest disintegrating world ever seen 'spills its guts' for NASA's exoplanet hunter

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BD+05 4868 Ab is the fastest disintegrating planet ever seen.

The planet is crumbling so fast due to bombardment from its star that it is losing a "moon's worth" of matter every million years .

Two teams of astronomers will join up and train infrared eye of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on the planet.

BD+05 4868 Ab only has around the equivalent of the moon's mass left intact.

At the rate it is losing matter, that means it will soon be gone entirely.

The two teams have submitted a JWST proposal to study the planet in the same way as K2-22b .

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