This planet is 150 percent the size of Jupiter, but is somehow 7 times less dense, and has 1 percent the density of Earth.
A bizarre planet that is enormous, but is no more dense than cotton candy, has been discovered by astronomers.This planet, named WASP-193b, is the second-least dense exoplanet ever found, with a density of around 0.059 grams per cubic centimeter, or 3.68 pounds per cubic foot, according to a new paper in the journal Nature Astronomy.
'WASP-193b is the second-least dense planet discovered to date, after Kepler-51d, which is much smaller,' study co-author Khalid Barkaoui, an exoplanet researcher at the University of Liège's EXOTIC Laboratory in Belgium, said in the statement.'Its extremely low density makes it a real anomaly among the more than 5,000 exoplanets discovered to date.
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