'This was completely unexpected.'
In more specific numerical terms, the site pointed out that WASP-193b has a density of 0.059 grams per cubic centimeter while cotton candy weighs in at about 0.05 grams per cubic centimeter. It might not be made of spun sugar, but these bad boys definitely seem to have some fluff to them.
"This was completely unexpected," Jessica Libby-Roberts, a University of Colorado researcher who worked on the initial taxonomy of these "super-puff" planets, said in aback in 2019. "We had planned on observing large water absorption features, but they just weren't there. We were clouded out!" The prevailing theory about how and why these super-puffs form suggests that many are relatively young and their puffy clouds are sort of planetary building blocks — a theory that WASP-193b complicates, though, because it's believed to be up to six billion years old.
There's obviously a lot more research to be done to figure out not only what's going on with WASP-193b — but once again, it shows that the universe is stranger than we could ever imagine.
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