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Cotton candy planets? Scientists discover two giant worlds with astonishingly low density
Updated On: 23 July, 2026 08:46 AM IST | London | Agencies
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
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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