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A Mysterious Planet Breaks All the Rules Scientists Know

Photo: NASA Hubble Space Telescope / Unsplash
The James Webb Space Telescope just discovered a giant planet called TOI-5205 b that shouldn't exist according to everything scientists thought they knew! This strange world has way fewer heavy elements in its atmosphere than it should have, which is like finding a cake with less sugar than the recipe calls for. Now astronomers are scratching their heads trying to figure out how this "forbidden" planet came to be!
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