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Tiny Pebbles Created One of The Most Extreme Worlds in The Galaxy

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The tiny pebbles left over from a star's formation fed the growth of one of the strangest, wildest worlds humanity has ever known.

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The fragments of rock and dust left behind by the formation of the star have become a building material for one of the most extreme worlds that mankind has ever discovered. This is an exoplanet, WASP-121b, or Tylos, a hot gas giant located 880 light years from Earth. Its atmosphere literally boils from flammable metals. The planet has been studied for the first time -- in terms of its number of studies, it is part of the Milky Way Exoplanet, exp…

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Scientists analyzing an ultra-chaud giant planet believe that it has been formed by absorbing light gases such as methane evaporating from tiny space pebbles, while being bombarded with large rock objects. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to explore the atmosphere of WASP-121b, researchers have succeeded in detecting water [...]

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Monkey Viral broke the news in on Monday, June 2, 2025.
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