WASP-193b is 50% larger than Jupiter — the largest planet in our solar system — but seven times less massive because of it's ...
The planet - which has been named WASP-193b - is thought to be the second least dense planet that has ever been discovered.
"The planet is so light that it's difficult to think of an analogous, solid-state material," study co-author Julien de Wit, a ...
Located 1,200 light-years from Earth, WASP-193b is the second-lightest exoplanet ever discovered despite being larger than ...
Researchers have discovered a "super fluffy" exoplanet, 50 per cent larger than Jupiter and weighing only a seventh of it, ...
WASP-193b is roughly 50 percent bigger than nearby gas giant Jupiter, but its mass is calculated to be just 0.14 that of ...
Located 1,200 light-years from Earth, WASP-193b stands out as an anomaly among over five thousand known exoplanets. It is 50% ...
The team hypothesizes that the exoplanet is primarily made of hydrogen and helium—similar to other gas giants in our galaxy.
The researchers also determined that the gas giant orbits its star, similar in size to our Sun, once every 6.2 days.
The planet is basically super fluffy.” While clearly an outlier they cannot easily explain, the researchers say astronomers ...
Researchers have stumbled on WASP-193b, a mind-boggling exoplanet with a density so low that they have nicknamed it ...
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