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Strange Jupiter-sized object found orbiting around zombie star

Orbiting a pulsar, astronomers have found a strange, lemon-shaped exoplanet with winds of helium and pure carbon, denser than ...
New Scientist on MSN

Strange lemon-shaped exoplanet defies the rules of planet formation

A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, ...
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers a lemon-shaped exoplanet unlike anything seen before: 'What the heck is this?'

A new discovery, made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), may just be the weirdest exoplanet yet, possessing an ...
Scientific American

This Planet Is the Shape of a Lemon. That May Be the Least Weird Thing About It

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a bizarre-looking exoplanet that defies explanation ...
Space.com

Astronomers discover origins of mysterious double hot Jupiter exoplanets: 'It is a dance of sorts'

"We show how planets in binary systems can undergo a mirrored migration process, so that both stars end up with hot Jupiters." Astronomers may have uncovered the curious origins of the universe's most ...
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How can Jupiter have no surface? A dive into a planet so big, it could swallow 1,000 Earths

A photo of Jupiter taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft in September 2023. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, image processing by Tanya Oleksuik The planet Jupiter has no solid ...
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'Stunned': Scientists discover rogue planet larger than Jupiter - and it's getting bigger

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Astronomers discovered a free-floating rogue planet with a mass 10 times heavier than Jupiter, and it's growing at an unprecedented rate. The rogue planet, named as such because it ...