Cotton Candy Planets: NASA Finds Jupiter-Sized Worlds Lighter Than Fluff 1,100 Light-Years Away

NASA’s TESS discovered two Jupiter-sized “super-puff” planets lighter than cotton candy, 1,100 light-years away.

NASA discovers the 'puffiest' two planets in our universe

A pair of giant planets circling a star more than 1,100 light-years from Earth looks almost too bloated to be real. Each ...
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A Jupiter-like ‘oddball’ planet survived its star’s death. It may show what happens after our sun dies

Researchers have discovered a planet which, by all intents and purposes, should not be there. The world, coined WD 1856 b, is ...

Astronomers find 2 gigantic planets lighter than cotton candy: "Comparable to a nice blob of shaving foam"

The featherweight pair — orbiting a star 1,110 light-years away — are the biggest exoplanets found to have less density than ...

TESS just found a planet in a new way—and more may be hiding in its eight years of data

For the first time, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to its warping of space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting ...
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Space Telescope Stumbles Upon Two Cotton Candy Planets the Size of Jupiter

The planets are extremely large, with TOI-791 b being about the same size as Jupiter, and TOI-791 c even larger. Yet, they ...
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NASA finds ‘puffiest’ planets so far: ‘Comparable to cotton candy’

NASA’s TESS mission discovered two unusually puffy planets, one larger than Jupiter and one about the same size, but both are ...

Venus, Jupiter and Mercury to form planet parade in June. How to see it

Venus, Jupiter and Mercury are due to form a planet parade in June visible across the US. What to know, including the date and time and where to look.
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It almost got away, but NASA's Juno caught something near Jupiter

As NASA's Juno flew around Jupiter last week, the spacecraft snapped a photo of an object before it could make a clean getaway. That clunky, bumpy thing at the far right edge of the frame is Thebe, ...