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Massive planet too big for its own sun pushes astronomers to rethink exoplanet formation

  • Written by Suvrath Mahadevan, Verne M. Willaman Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn State
imageLHS 3154b, a newly discovered massive planet that should be too big to exist. The Pennsylvania State University

Imagine you’re a farmer searching for eggs in the chicken coop – but instead of a chicken egg, you find an ostrich egg, much larger than anything a chicken could lay.

That’s a little how our teamof astronomersfelt when wed...

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