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Rugby ball-shaped exoplanet discovered. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 01 / 220112110130.htm. University of Bern. "Rugby ball-shaped exoplanet ...
Doctors have removed a huge 1.2kg, rugby ball-shaped hairball from the stomach of a teenager who won't stop eating hair. The unnamed 13-year-old girl from Mumbai, India, had spent the past seven ...
Planets outside our solar system can be wild, weird places. Astronomers have discovered exoplanets shaped like a rugby ball, or where it rains gems, or which have one hemisphere covered in lava.
The rugby ball-shaped WASP-103b is the first non-spherical exoplanet observed. WASP-103b got its odd shape due to tidal forces acted upon it by its star, the researchers report.
Rugby fans have mocked the new logo for the men's Six Nations, after a rebrand has ditched the well-known colourful rugby ball which is symbolic with the competition. The Six Nations has announced ...
Exoplanet WAP-103b is shaped more like a rugby ball than a beach ball. The tidal forces of its host star pull it out of round. ESA.
Played by 3 teams, on a circular field over 90 minutes, this game is a hybrid consisting of features from Rugby, American Football and Australian rules, as well as many other elements.
WASP-103b is deformed into its rugby ball shape by strong tidal forces between the planet and its host star. And by measuring how much the planet is deformed the scientists were able to tell how ...
Perhaps you've heard of the buckyball. That molecule is roughly soccer-ball-shaped, made of sixty carbon atoms, and its proper name- buckminsterfullerene- honors architecture visionary Buckminster ...
A RUGBY ball shaped planet has been spotted outside our Solar System and scientists are calling it deformed. Exoplanet WAP-103b has been baffling experts for numerous reasons ever since it was spot… ...