What if mysterious ‘cotton candy’ planets actually sport rings?
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - 09:10
in Astronomy & Space
Some of the extremely low-density, “cotton candy like” exoplanets called super-puffs may actually have rings, according to new research published in The Astronomical Journal by Carnegie’s Anthony Piro and Caltech’s Shreyas Vissapragada Super-puffs are notable for having exceptionally large radii for their masses–which would give them seemingly incredibly low densities. The adorably named bodies have been confounding […]