Weirdest Planet ever discovered

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KingofHazor
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A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this Jupiter-mass world has a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere filled with soot clouds and possibly diamonds at its core. Its extreme gravity stretches it into a lemon shape, and it completes a full orbit in under eight hours. Scientists are stunned no known theory explains how such a planet could exist.

NASA's Webb telescope just discovered one of the weirdest planets ever | ScienceDaily

This isn't strictly religion or philosophy, but there's no Science forum other than possibly the Nerdery. But I thought that you highly intelligent folks might find this interesting.
swimmerbabe11
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This is cool, thank you for sharing.
BonfireNerd04
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Its extreme gravity stretches it into a lemon shape

By the IAU definition of "planet", doesn't an elongated shape (lack of "hydrostatic equilibrium") disqualify it from being a planet? So the astronomers have found the weirdest giant asteroid ever?
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