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Bizarre ‘Cotton-Candy’ Planet Is Changing Our Sense of What’s Possible – Gizmodo Australia
An exoplanet located 212 light-years away is roughly the same size as Jupiter, but it’s 10 times lighter. The discovery is challenging our conceptions of how gas…

An exoplanet located 212 light-years away is roughly the same size as Jupiter, but its 10 times lighter. The discovery is challenging our conceptions of how gas giants form and grow and the types of planets that can exist.
New research published in The Astrophysical Journal suggests its easier for gas giants to emerge within a protoplanetary disk than previously assumed. By easier, the authors of the new paper, led by astronomer Björn Benneke and PhD student Caroline Piaulet from the University…
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