The planet, discovered by Wasp, has this gigantic ring system that is about the same- It's about one A you across. That's about the Earth's orbit around the sun. This exoplanet is very, very far from its star and it has a gargantuan-sized ring system. And we're questioning- I've seen artists' illustrations of this now that you're mentioning it. It's bizarre. How does it keep a stable ring while it's orbiting the star? We don't even know if it is orbiting the star. There's only one eclipse of this thing ever seen, which is where the evidence for the rings come from. So there's an awful
What is the weirdest planet ever discovered? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice discover bizarre exoplanets like Erebus, the impacts of living on a habitable moon, hot Jupiters, and more with astronomy professor David Kipping.
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