Scientists discover gigantic ‘super-puff’ planets lighter than candy floss

Or imagine a cosmic ball of shaving foam (Picture: Getty/Metro)

A pair of ‘super-puff planets’ lighter than a shaving foam or cotton candy have been discovered, researchers told Metro.

TOI-791 b and TOI-791 c are exoplanets, planets outside our Solar System, 1,100 light-years away from Earth, or a 10billion-year-long drive away.

Yet despite them being the size of Jupiter, neither is a celestial heavyweight – they’re what are genuinely called ‘super-puff’ planets.

Jupiter has a density 28 times greater than TOI-791 c and 35 times greater than TOI-791b, according to a paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

No, they’re not made of pink candy floss, lead author Read Entire Article