Scientists found a weird marshmallow-like planet in the deep cosmos

All sorts of strange worlds are being discovered by the astronomer.

There are some rain gems in the clouds. It is possible that others are completely covered in the oceans. There is a new addition to the planets beyond our solar system. It is thought to have an atmospheric density similar to a marshmallows.

It's weird. It's absolutely true. Our planet is also weird. The universe is teeming with hundreds of billions of galaxies that each contain billions of stars and an untold number of planets.

Astronomers at the Kitt Peak National Observatory used a large telescope to look at a gassy Jupiter-like world some 590 light-years away. A "red dwarf" is a strange type of star. The stars are dimmer than the sun, but they shoot out flares that can make nearby planets inhospitable. The National Science Foundation's NOIRLab says TOI 3757 b is the lowest density planet ever found around a red dwarf star.

How did this gassy world get so fluffy?

There are two ideas for the atmosphere of the planet.

1. Jupiter is a gas giant that starts its life as a rocky core. The pull in nearby gas is used by them as the solar system forms. The planet's rocky core may have formed slowly due to the fact that the red dwarf star has less heavy elements. The atmosphere of TOI 3757 b was less dense and fluffier than other Jupiter planets.

2. The TOI 3757 b's path could be elliptical. Excess heating can cause the planet's atmosphere to bloat when it gets close to its star.

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Scientists will keep looking at this strange world. The most powerful space telescope ever built will be used by them. The telescope has equipment that can be used to find out what the atmosphere of distant worlds are made of. Water, methane, and carbon dioxide can be found on some planets.

"Potential future observations of the atmosphere of this planet using NASA's new James Webb Space Telescope could help shed light on its puffy nature," Jessica Libby-Roberts, an author of the new research on TOI 3757 b and a graduate student at Pennsylvania State University, said in a

This marshmallows world was originally spotted by the TESS space telescope. TESS watches for exoplanets to travel in front of their stars, and uses the information it observes to judge the planet's size. Calculating an exoplanet's mass, density, and beyond can be done using other telescopes.

Scientists have confirmed the existence of 5,190 exoplanets and the agency is working to confirm over 8000 other objects. There is no evidence that any of these worlds are alive. Some of the large rocky worlds that are called "super-Earths" may be able to host conditions that are suitable for life.

Don't be alarmed, folks. There is a lot of research going on on planets. There will be more wild things found out there.