Webb Solves a Mystery of Why 'Cotton Candy' Planets Exist

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about new discoveries about puffy and cotton candy planets (yup, they're real)
Links:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07395-z
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/webb-cracks-case-of-inflated-exoplanet/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02259-y
https://news.mit.edu/2024/astronomers-spot-giant-planet-light-as-cotton-candy-0514
Previous video: https://youtu.be/qDVfieN3_wc
0:00 Puffy planets
0:55 How these planets differ from others - cotton candy planets?
2:40 Different types of puffy planets
3:25 Potential explanations?
4:48 One of the planets possibly finally explained
5:45 JWST confirms a lot of things
6:50 Unusual core as an explanation
8:20 Why is the core so hot though?
9:00 Overall explanation so far and conclusions

#exoplanet #nasa #astronomy

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Credit:
NASA, ESA, and L. Hustak and J. Olmsted (STScI) - https://hubblesite.org/image/4598
 Roberto Molar Candanosa/Johns Hopkins University
Philip D. Hall CC BY SA 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_lobe#/media/File:Binary_star_system_-_semidetached_configuration_q=3.svg
Baperookamo CC BY-SA 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-puff#/media/File:Super-puff_planet-bpk.png
 NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Science: D. Sing (JHU)

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Видео Webb Solves a Mystery of Why 'Cotton Candy' Planets Exist канала Anton Petrov