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Cotton candy planets? Scientists discover two giant worlds with astonishingly low density

Both worlds are approximately the size of Jupiter, but contain far less material than their dimensions suggest

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An illustration depicting one of the planets. PIC COURTESY/NASA

An illustration depicting one of the planets. PIC COURTESY/NASA

Astronomers have identified two of the least dense giant planets ever measured, belonging to a rare class known as “super-puff” planets, and both are less dense than cotton candy.

The exoplanets — ‘TOI-791 b’ and ‘TOI-791 c’ — circle an F7-type dwarf star about 1110 light years from Earth in the southern constellation Volans. 

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