NASA’s TESS Spots Two Jupiter-Sized Planets Lighter Than Cotton Candy
Photo credit: NASA / Daniel Rutter Astronomers poring over years of data from NASA’s planet-hunting satellite have confirmed a pair of worlds that rank among the largest and least dense ever detected. A sun-like star called TOI-791 hosts them both, sitting roughly 1,113 light years away in the southern constellation Volans. One planet spans roughly [...]
Photo credit: NASA / Daniel Rutter Astronomers poring over years of data from NASA’s planet-hunting satellite have confirmed a pair of worlds that rank among the largest and least dense ever detected. A sun-like star called TOI-791 hosts them both, sitting roughly 1,113 light years away in the southern constellation Volans. One planet spans roughly [...]
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