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First look inside the bizarre planet reveals what makes it so puffy

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For the first time, the JWST has given us a detailed view of the interior of a world outside our solar system. The extremely strange exoplanet WASP-107b has an atmosphere that is surprisingly low in methane, which suggests that the exoplanet’s interior must be considerably hotter than we thought – and that its core is … Read more

Do stars disappear into their own black holes? A bizarre binary system says ‘yes’

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a spotted blue star shines bright, emanating its light across space as a small black sphere in its lower right corner intrudes on its reality.

Scientists have found strong evidence that some massive stars end their existence with a whimper, not a bang, and sink into one black hole of their own making without the light and fury of one supernova. To understand why this is important, we need to start with a crash course in stellar evolution. Stars generate … Read more