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Astronomers just found a giant planet that shouldn’t exist (www.sciencedaily.com)
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Scientists have discovered a giant planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf star, something they believed wasn t even possible. The planet, TOI-6894b, is about the size of Saturn but orbits a star just a fifth the mass of our Sun. This challenges long-standing ideas about how big planets form, especially around small stars.

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[–] lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

Yeah, same: It's the Earth