According to CCTV Finance, scientific researchers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to discover a planet similar in shape to a lemon.The exoplanet, named PSR J2322-2650b, orbits a rapidly rotating neutron star, known as a pulsar.This alone is extraordinary, but it is nothing compared to its other peculiarities.
PSR J2322-2650b is extremely close to its parent star, and the parent star is extremely massive. Therefore, under the pull of gravity, its shape is shaped into an oval similar to a lemon.
The planet's orbital period is only 7.8 hours, and even in the coldest areas of its surface, temperatures are as high as about 650 degrees Celsius. Unlike most giant planets, the direction of atmospheric circulation on this planet is completely opposite to the direction of rotation.
In addition, the planet is similar in size to Jupiter and is located 2,000 light-years from Earth. Its atmosphere is mainly composed of helium and carbon, which scientists have never seen before.
Previously, humans have never found traces of carbon molecules in the atmosphere of any exoplanet, because carbon in planetary atmospheres is usually more likely to combine with other atoms than to form carbon molecules together.
How it formed is still a mystery to researchers. A scientific paper describing the planet was published this week in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
