Something is hiding inside Kepler-51d, and it’s doing a remarkably good job of it. About 2,615 light-years away in the ...
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These cotton candy exoplanets hide behind a haze even the James Webb Space Telescope can't penetrate
These three exoplanets are among the least dense ever found, and all attempts to probe their atmospheres have been blocked by a mysterious smog.
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JWST peers into the haze surrounding an unusual cotton candy-like planet
Learn more about the Kepler-51 star system and some of the ''oddball" planets that reside there.
How many exoplanets are in the cosmos and what can they tell us about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an ...
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JWST finds Kepler-51d’s haze keeps its super-puff origins unclear
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken the deepest look yet at Kepler-51d, an ultra-low-density exoplanet sometimes compared to cotton candy, and found that a thick atmospheric haze blocks nearly ...
The unusual system of three “super puff” planets has at least one more planet, revealed by its gravitational tug on other planets An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density ...
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