A young ‘cotton candy’ exoplanet the size of Jupiter may shrink into a super-Earth
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that a cotton candy-like planet the size of Jupiter, located about 350 light-years away, is shrinking and on its way to becoming a ‘sub-Neptune’ or ‘super-Earth’ ‘ format. world. The extrasolar planet or ‘exoplanet’ called V1298 Tau b is not only one of the lightest planets ever … Read more