Astronomers discovered a planet that orbits its star so closely that its surface is being scorched into magma and vaporizing into space.

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;

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,