WASP-193b is the second-lightest planet to be found out of the more than 5,400 planets that astronomers have discovered to date, MIT said.
A group of astronomers recently discovered a massive, cotton candy-like planet orbiting a distant star in the Milky Way.
“There’s a class of planets called puffy Jupiters, and it’s been a mystery for 15 years now as to what they are. And this is an extreme case of that class,” said lead study author and MIT postdoc Khalid Barkaoui in a statement. The new planet’s name is partially derived from how it was initially spotted — through an international collaboration called the Wide Angle Search for Planets, or WASP.
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