Giant puffy planets as light as cotton candy
There’s a whole family of exoplanets known as “Puffy Jupiters”. They’re a type of gas giant with a total mass comparable to Jupiter’s, but whose atmosphere is much, much larger, creating enormous planets with shockingly low densities.
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Written by Ryn Acosta
Senior Fact Checker Natalia Kissova
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Narrated by Diedra O'Ree
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Sources:
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/ne...
https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech...
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-relea... (primary source)
https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanet-ca...
https://www.space.com/exoplanet-2nd-l...
https://www.space.com/38914-hot-jupit...
https://exoplanet.eu/catalog/wasp_193...
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.08350
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
https://exoplanet.eu/catalog/wasp_193...
https://astrobiology.com/2024/05/astr...
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Credits:
NASA Exoplanet Catalog
European Southern Observatory
ESO/M. Kornmesser/S. Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard)
ESO/M. Kornmesser
ESO/L. Calçada/spaceengine.org
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, the AVL at the NCSA, A. Boley, A. Kritsuk and M. Norman
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser/D. Player (STScI)
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
ESO/L.Calçada/M.Kornmesser
ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser
ESO/L. Calçada
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