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Bizarre Shiny Planet That 'Shouldn't Exist' Gleams Like a Mirror in Space

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LTT-9779b is so shiny that it's almost a mirror, reflecting a jaw-dropping 80 percent of the light from its host star. It's 4.7 times the radius and 29 times the mass of Earth, and it whips round its Sun-like star on a blistering 19-hour orbit.

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Bizarre Shiny Planet That 'Shouldn't Exist' Gleams Like a Mirror in Space

The shiniest exoplanet ever found in our galaxy has clouds made of glass and titanium.

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Science Alert broke the news in Australia on Wednesday, July 12, 2023.
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