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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
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NASA has discovered planets so strange they sound completely impossible: From worlds that rain molten glass to giant “marshmallow” planets

For a very long time, it was thought that the planets in our solar system represented the basic model of the universe. Rocky planets were found near the Sun, followed by gas giants further out from the Sun, frozen planets, and definite orbits. The whole concept has been turned upside down in the past three decades. From the Exoplanet Archive provided by NASA, it is known that there are thousands of planets in the Milky Way galaxy orbiting different stars outside our solar system. Some planets resemble those in our solar system, while others look like something out of fiction.

Recent developments in the design of modern telescopes, such as the Kepler Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, and the Hubble Space Telescope, indicate the discovery of planets having unique atmospheres, weird weather, weird shapes, and other features of existence contrary to the old concept of planet creation.

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