5. The Loneliest Planet
HD 106906 b is the “forever-alone guy” of planets as it hangs out, all by itself, in the Cruz constellation, revolving around its host star at a distance 60,000,000,000 miles, over 20 times the space between Neptune and the Sun. Located nearly 300 light years away from the Earth, the “Super-Jupiter” class planet which is above 11 times larger than the Jupiter, is thus too far away from the host to gather raw material needed for its formation. Astrophysicists hypothecate that it is a failed star, thus challenging the binary star theory, since it is too small for binary formations.
4. The Swelled Up Gas Planet
HAT-P-1 is a strange and mysterious planet outside the solar system, located 450 light years away, and has recently been discovered by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Is a giant gas planet with a size about half of Jupiter, but the stunning fact about the planet is that, despite its size, it weighs about the same as only a cork ball. It is classified as a “hot Jupiter” planet, it is almost 25% bigger than models estimate, which confuses the astrophysicists, who are trying to find out why it is swelled up. Scientists suspect that it can float in water, and are curious to test how well it can do so.
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