Located 163 light-years from Earth, the Jupiter-sized exoplanet called WASP-69b offers astrophysicists a window into the dynamic processes shaping planets in the galaxy. The star it orbits scorches and strips the planet of its atmosphere, and the escaping atmosphere is formed by the star into a vast comet-like tail at least 350,000 miles long. I… Read More »
LHS 3154b is a newly discovered massive planet that should be too big to exist. Pennsylvania State University Imagine you are a farmer looking for eggs in the chicken coop; But instead of a chicken egg, you found an ostrich egg, much larger than a chicken could lay. That’s kind of how our team of… Read More »
Imagine you are a farmer looking for eggs in the chicken coop; But instead of a chicken egg, you found an ostrich egg, much larger than a chicken could lay. That’s kind of how our team of astronomers felt earlier this year when we discovered a massive planet with a mass nine times less than… Read More »