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Planet with pure oxygen atmosphere discovered
short by Swarnim Bagre / on Friday, 1 April, 2016
Researchers have recently discovered a white dwarf planet, nicknamed Dox, with an atmosphere almost completely made up of pure oxygen. Researchers believe that Dox was part of a binary star – where two stars orbit their combined centre of mass – and suggested that the other star's explosion might have caused Dox to lose its lighter elements, leaving only oxygen.
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