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,

At such close proximity to its star, the planet is likely covered in magma boiling off into space. As the roasting planet whizzes around its star, it is shedding an enormous amount of surface minerals and effectively evaporating away, leaving a debris tail behind it.