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Some planets, particularly young ones, are puffy. These gaseous worlds have size, but lack mass, meaning they have a consistency similar to cotton candy! #CottonCandyDay
https://go.nasa.gov/3F8lJ2h
#NASAExoplanets

Hubble Observes a Mystery: 'Cotton Candy' Planets

"Super-Puffs" may sound like a new breakfast cereal. But it's actually the nickname for a unique and rare class of young exoplanets that have the density of cotton candy. Nothing like them exists in our solar system.
Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
#NASAExoplanets #cottoncandyday
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Christina
Christina
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@BeckyBunzy I feel like you would appreciate the comparison of planets to cotton candy. Now I want cotton candy.
@Becky, Baroness of Bunzy
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What? Me?
What? Me?
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I always find it amazing that Saturn is 2/3 as dense as water, and would float in it.

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