NASA Discovers Puffy Planets Lighter Than Cotton Candy @museumofscience
NASA Discovers Puffy Planets Lighter Than Cotton Candy  @museumofscience
Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
A pair of planets with less density than cotton candy has been discovered! 🪐

In this episode of Spacing Out, Talia Sepersky explains how one of @NASA’s telescopes found two gas giants that can be classified in the rare “Super Puff” category. Despite being about the same size as Jupiter, they are a dozen times less dense. There are only a handful of these planets that we are aware of, and it is even more rare that they were found in the same star system.

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