Scientist using NASA James Webb Space Telescope have identified a past unknown kind of exoplanet one whose atmosphere defies current ideas about how planets are supposed to form.
The latest observe world has stretched lemon like shape and may even consist of diamonds deep inside.
It is strange character make it difficult to classify sitting somewhere between what astronomers consider a planet and star.
A Carbon World Unlike Any Other
The object officially named PSR J2322-2650b has atmosphere dominated by helium and carbon rather than familiar gases seen on most known exoplanets.
With mass comparable to jupiter, the planet is shrouded in dark soot like clouds.
Inside the planet scientists believe carbon from these clouds could be compressed into diamonds.
The planet circles a spinning neutron star.
The planet orbits a star that is completely difficult the mass of the sun but size of city said university of Chicago astrophysicist Michael Zhang the study principal investigator.
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The research has been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical journal letters.
This is new type of planet atmosphere that nobody has ever seen before.
This was absolute surprise.
