Artist's illustration depicting the formation of a new planet outside our solar system. File pic: Reuters/NASA © Copyright Deepak kumar blogs R esearchers have discovered a "super fluffy" exoplanet, 50 percent larger than Jupiter and weighing only a seventh of it, giving it a "cotton candy"-like density. The new, "fluffy" planet has been named 'WASP-193b' and was found to be located about 1,200 light years away from Earth, roughly equivalent to 10,800 trillion kilometres. Exoplanets exist outside the solar system and help us understand a bit more about how the universe works. "The planet is so light that it's difficult to think of an analogous, solid-state material," said study co-author Julien de Wit, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US. "The reason why it's close to cotton candy is because both are pretty much air. The planet is basically super fluffy," he said. The international team of rese...