'What the heck is this?' James Webb telescope spots inexplicable planet with diamonds and soot in its atmosphere
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The James Webb Space Telescope discovered an unusual Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a neutron star 750 light-years away, featuring an atmosphere filled with carbon soot and diamonds instead of typical gases like hydrogen or water. Scientists are baffled by this composition and the planet's extreme proximity to its star, making its formation mechanism completely unexplainable by current theories.
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