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"What The Heck Is This?": JWST Reveals Bizarre Exoplanet With Inexplicable Composition

JWST detected a helium-carbon atmosphere with molecular carbon C3 and C2 on PSR J2322-2650b, marking the first known exoplanet with such a composition among 150 studied.

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"What The Heck Is This?": JWST Reveals Bizarre Exoplanet With Inexplicable Composition

Everything about this world will leave you flabbergasted.

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NASA’s Webb Observes Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation - NASA Science

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition

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