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NASA’s Webb telescope finds bizarre atmosphere on a lemon-shaped exoplanet (news.uchicago.edu)

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[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It always bogles my brain that they can tell all these things based on light shifts and what not. So this lemon shape, is the heavy star nearby pulling it apart or something to elongate it like that?

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's my understanding based on the article, it orbits a star the weight of ours but the size of a basketball or something insane like that

[–] t_berium@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Neutron stars have a diameter of approximately 20 km. Still tiny in cosmic terms.