Planets, the eight celestial bodies orbiting our sun, are spherical. Exoplanets, the many other celestial bodies orbiting many other suns, are also spherical.
At least that's what scientists thought until the European Space Agency (ESA) got a better look at the "rugby ball shaped" WASP-103b. Discovered in 2014 amid the constellation of Hercules, this news-making gas giant is twice the size of Jupiter and slightly less than 1.5 times its mass.
Publisher: Mashable
Date: 2022-01-15T21:47:37 00:00
Author: Alison Foreman
Twitter: @mashable
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