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If you think cotton candy and giant planets don't belong in the same sentence, NASA has some news for you
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Data from NASA's test mission revealed two giant planets that are nearly the size of Jupiter
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but so light for their size that their average density is comparable to cotton candy
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They orbit a sun-like star about 1,100 light years from Earth and have been nicknamed super puff planets
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Don't let the name fool you. They aren't soft or sweet. they're still gas giants. Their material is just spread over such a huge area that they're
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incredibly light for their size. Scientists say only a handful of super puff planets have ever
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been found, and discovering two in the same solar system makes this find even more unusual
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Researchers hope the discovery helps answer a long-standing question about how some of the
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biggest planets in the universe end up so fluffy
