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Researchers find 'fluffy oddball' of a planet with a composition similar to cotton candy Located 1,200 light-years from Earth,WASP-193b orbits a distant star in our Milky Way galaxy.
What is big, with a fluffy, cotton candy-like composition? Turns out, a planet. An international coalition of astronomers has newly discovered an unusual planet, dubbed WASP-193b, that’s about ...
Ingenuity: NASA's remarkable Martian helicopter 07:35. Researchers discovered a huge planet 1,200 light years from Earth with a density comparable to that of cotton candy, scientists said Monday.
Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet larger than Jupiter but incredibly lightweight, similar to cotton candy. The planet, named WASP-193b, has an unusually low density compared to gas giants ...
ATLANTA — What is big, with a fluffy, cotton candy-like composition? Turns out, a planet. An international coalition of astronomers has newly discovered an unusual planet, dubbed WASP-193b, that ...
A bizarre planet that is enormous, but is no more dense than cotton candy, has been discovered by astronomers. This planet, named WASP-193b, is the second-least dense exoplanet ever found, with a ...
A newly discovered giant planet is the density of a vast cloud of cotton candy. The sweet discovery of WASP-193b marks the entry of the second-lightest exoplanet ever seen into the exoplanet catalog.
What is big, with a fluffy, cotton candy-like composition? Turns out, a planet. An international coalition of astronomers has newly discovered an unusual planet, dubbed WASP-193b, that’s about ...