Wednesday, 19 April 2017

Huge exoplanet with the density of styrofoam discovered

An artist's rendering of the exoplanet KELT 11b

If the Stay Puft marshmallow man from Ghostbusters were a planet, it would probably be the newly discovered super gas giant, KELT 11b. The highly inflated planet is located some 320 light years away and is 40 percent larger than Jupiter, despite being only a fifth as massive as the largest planet in our solar system.

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