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The exoplanet in the Neptune desert is the first of its kind.

Enlarge / / Artist’s conception of a giant gas planetary system. Unlike the TOI-849b, it still has its massive gas envelope. In 2018, scientists monitoring TESS, the transiting exoplanet prospecting satellite, discovered a giant planet in close orbit around the star TOI-849, approximately 735 light-years away. Nature recently published an …

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