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A planet that smells like rotten eggs? Webb Telescope finds a strange new world

Mar 17, 2026

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre exoplanet slightly larger than Earth, covered by a vast magma ocean and wrapped in a sulfur‑rich atmosphere. Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest the world may represent an entirely new class of planet unlike anything in our solar system.

https://www.kxan.com/news/science/space/a-planet-that-smells-like-rotten-eggs-webb-telescope-finds-a-strange-new-world/

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