A planet that shouldn’t exist was just found orbiting a distant star
When astronomers search for exoplanets they rarely know what they're going to find, but that doesn't mean there aren't rules that would-be planets are expected to follow. Depending on their distance from their host star, any given planet will fall into one of several categories... or at least that's what scientists have come to expect.
NGTS-4b, a newly-discovered world orbiting a distant star, doesn't follow many of the rules that researchers thought they knew, and it's earned the nickname "The Forbidden Planet" because of it.
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