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Astronomers spot a giant planet that is as light as cotton candy - EurekAlert


<p>A huge, fluffy planet known as WASP-193b was discovered orbiting a distant star in our Milky Way galaxy &mdash;&nbsp;a new key to the mystery of how such giant, super-light planets form.</p>

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