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Huge planet too big for its own sun is pushing astronomers to rethink exoplanet formation

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 »

Huge planet too big for its own sun is pushing astronomers to rethink exoplanet formation

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 »