Not all planets are spherical like Earth.
The European Space Agency says that it has found a planet shaped like a rugby ball. The planet appears to have been caused by the tidal forces of its host star.
The host star of WASP-103b exerts a tidal force much like how the Moon pulls on Earth. This is the first time that a rugby ball shape has been seen in an exoplanet.
It's time to slap Cheep.
The data gathered by the Hubble Telescope and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope were used to make the discovery.
As it transited its host star, CHEOPS was able to detect very specific light signatures made by the planet. Astronomers were able to determine its exact tidal deformation using this data.
Jacques Laskar, researcher director at the French National Center for Scientific Research and co-author of a paper about the discovery in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, said in a blog post that it was incredible that CHEOPS was able to reveal this tiny deformation.
This is the first time such analysis has been done, and we hope that observing over a longer time interval will strengthen this observation and lead to better knowledge of the planet's internal structure.
The researchers hope that future observations by the James Webb Space Telescope will uncover more information about the strange planet.
Cheops has discovered a rugby ball-shaped exoplanet.
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