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Scientists confirm 'super-puff' planets as dense as cotton candy
short by Kanishka Pandey / on Saturday, 21 December, 2019
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope data confirmed a new class of "super-puff" planets with their density as low as that of cotton candy. Astronomers found three of these 'super-puffs' located in the Kepler 51 star system about 2,400 light-years away from Earth. "The fluffy globes are the lowest density exoplanets ever discovered beyond Earth's solar system," researchers said.
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