Top 10 Weirdest Planets They Have Ever Found

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Some of these planets are unusual and rarely talked about.  Most of us astronomy fans can name most of or all of the planets in our solar system and the most unusual one might be Saturn in that it has very noticeable rings around it that seem to be held in place by gravity.  There are a lot of planets that astronomers have observed with the advent of The Hubble Space Telescope with very unusual properties.  This video however lists out 10 unusual ones you may never have heard about:

Space is unbelievably strange. You would be forgiven for thinking that every planet out there is similar, just a big ball of rock and gas, but planets are remarkably more unique than that. Here’s the top 10 strangest planets in the known universe, that seem like they belong in some bizarre science fiction series.

In addition to those listed in the video, there has been a lot of attention given to exoplanets lately, with the most famous one being discovered in 2015.  It is called kepler 452-b and astronomers think it may be similar to earth.

Here is a diagram of other possible exoplanet discoveries with a size comparison to Earth, Jupiter and Neptune:

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Here is an artist’s rendition of the exoplanet kepler 452-b which has made the most headlines this year

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Let’s find out all the planets on the list in the video on page 2

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