Lemon-shaped planet found: ‘Most stretched’
Hindustan Times Thane
|December 20, 2025
{ HEADLINE_PHENOMENON } 2,000 LIGHT YEARS AWAY
Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a planet more than 2,000 lights years from Earth that has a very unusual shape, NYT reported.
The planet is shaped like a lemon — its equatorial diameter is 38% wider than its polar diameter. The exoplanet PSR J2322-2650b is “the most stretched out planet ever seen”, NYT reported.
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