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A Cosmic Accident Just Exposed the Hidden Chemistry of Giant Planets

A strange cosmic object nicknamed “The Accident” has given scientists their first glimpse of a rare silicon-based molecule long expected in the atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn, and other giant planets. This faint, ancient brown dwarf — too small to be a star, too big to be a planet — was so unusua

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