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Astronomers Discover the Second-Lightest "Cotton Candy" Exoplanet to Date.


The hunt for extrasolar planets has revealed some truly interesting candidates, not the least of which are planets known as "Hot Jupiters." This refers to a particular class of gas giants comparable in size to Jupiter but which orbit very closely to their suns. Strangely, there are some gas giants out there that have very low densities, raising questions about their formation and evolution.

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