4. The Swelled Up Gas Planet
HAT-P-1 is a strange and mysterious planet outside the solar system, located 450 light years away, and has recently been discovered by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Is a giant gas planet with a size about half of Jupiter, but the stunning fact about the planet is that, despite its size, it weighs about the same as only a cork ball. It is classified as a “hot Jupiter” planet, it is almost 25% bigger than models estimate, which confuses the astrophysicists, who are trying to find out why it is swelled up. Scientists suspect that it can float in water, and are curious to test how well it can do so.
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