Jupiter's methane-shrouded cousin spotted around distant star

Maybe our solar system isn't such an oddball after all. As planet-hunting telescopes have scanned the starry heavens, they've discovered all kinds of strange worlds that are unlike those in our own solar neighborhood: hot Jupiters, super-Earths, mini-Neptunes. But now, astronomers say they've spotted...

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