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A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

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Yewande Oluwole, 5, and her sister Jadesola, 3, love astronomy and can name every planet—even the dwarf planets. But peering through a refracting telescope at a tree branch on the University of ...