Astronomers find biggest super-puff planets yet that are lighter than cotton candy
Astronomers have uncovered a pair of giant planets that are lighter than cotton candy — super-puffs the size of Jupiter. The featherweight pair — orbiting a star 1,110 light-years away — are the biggest exoplanets found to have less density than cotton candy. That makes them the lightest known planets of their size, said the University of Oxford's George Dransfield. “These two planets have densities comparable to a nice blob of shaving foam, fresh from the can,” Dransfield said in an...
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