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"What The Heck Is This?": JWST Reveals Bizarre Exoplanet With Inexplicable Composition

PSR J2322-2650b's helium and molecular carbon atmosphere is unique among 150 studied exoplanets and may contain soot clouds and diamond rain, researchers said.

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There are more than 6,000 exoplanets (worlds beyond the solar system) detected from which the atmosphere of about 150 has been studied, but none has been as rare as the one just discovered by the James Webb space telescope. Its shape is like that of a lemon and its atmosphere is different from that of any other, so much so that NASA cannot explain how such a planet has come to exist. The study has been published this Tuesday in The Astrophysical…

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NASA (Source) broke the news in Washington, United States on Tuesday, December 16, 2025.
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