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NASA’s Webb spots bizarre carbon-rich exoplanet orbiting a rapidly spinning pulsar

Webb spots a bizarre exoplanet with a carbon-rich atmosphere orbiting a pulsar, defying theories of how planets form.
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"What The Heck Is This?": JWST Reveals Bizarre Exoplanet With Inexplicable Composition

Pulsars emit a lot of radiation, in particular high-energy gamma-rays and radio waves pulses. That light is invisible to JWST ...
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Astronomers discover images of rare Tatooine-like exoplanet with a strange 300-year orbit: 'Exactly how it works is still uncertain'

Astronomers were also able to learn a lot more about HD 143811 AB b, discovering that this planet is a whopper, at around six ...
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James Webb telescope spots strange 'super-puff' planet frantically chasing its own atmosphere through space

New James Webb telescope observations of the 'super-puff' planet WASP-107b show that the exoplanet's runaway atmosphere is ...
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This weird planet sports a giant tail like a comet

Astronomers have discovered a distant exoplanet with a tail that stretches over 5.5 million miles long. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares / MIT illustration Astronomers have accidentally found a planet with ...
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Strange multi-planet system proves not all hot Jupiter exoplanets are lonely giants

The discovery of an extraordinary multi-planet system has demonstrated that so-called "hot Jupiter" planets may not be lonely giants after all. The findings could force scientists to revise their ...
WRAL

Strange 'rogue planet' travels through space alone

A strange 200 million-year-old object with the mass of a planet has been discovered 20 light-years from Earth, outside our solar system. The "rogue," as it's referred to by researchers, is producing ...
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Astronomers spot strange exoplanet with a tail 350,000 miles long

Artist's concept depicts new research that has expanded our understanding of exoplanet WASP-69 b's "tail." NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have ...
IFLScience

New Planet In Strange Perpendicular Orbit Around Binary Stars Is Straight Out Of Science Fiction

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
Newsweek

‘Very Unusual’ Shimmying World Challenges Theories on Planet Formation

The discovery of a strange wobbling planet has left astronomers confused but could reveal the secrets of planet formation. The new exoplanet, named TOI-1408 c, is situated about 455 light-years from ...