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Astronomers have discovered what seems to be the core of a once-mighty gas giant, devoid of the thick shroud of gas that once surrounded it. This huge but decrepit world, the first we’ve seen of its kind, could help us learn about how planets are formed.
David Armstrong at the University of Warwick, UK, and his colleagues found this strange planet, called TOI-849b, using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). TESS watches distant stars for periodic dips in their light that occur when a planet passes in …
source: newscientist.com