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@WestportObservatory@vmst.io  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

🚀 Webb just handed us lemons… from space. Astronomers have spotted an exoplanet stretched into a lemon shape by a pulsar’s insane gravity — and its atmosphere is unlike anything we’ve ever seen, dominated by carbon and helium with clouds that might rain diamonds.

📖 Read more on this gifted NY Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/science/lemon-planet-pulsar-webb.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E8.gi4g.fXQcS6mLJv7y&smid=url-share

#JamesWebb #Exoplanets #Astronomy #SpaceDiscovery #PulsarPlanet #AstroScience #WeGotSpaceLemons 🍋🌌

https://www.nytimes.com

Lemon-Shaped World Is the Most Stretched-Out Planet Ever Seen

An artist’s impression of the lemon-shaped world, which astronomers say would be red because of dust and soot from the carbon in its atmosphere.Credit...NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)
An artist’s impression of the lemon-shaped world, which astronomers say would be red because of dust and soot from the carbon in its atmosphere.Credit...NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)
An artist’s impression of the lemon-shaped world, which astronomers say would be red because of dust and soot from the carbon in its atmosphere.Credit...NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)
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