"The roughly Jupiter-mass object, designated PSR J2322-2650b, orbits just one million miles away from its star, or one percent of the Earth's distance from the Sun, with a single "year" lasting just 7.8 Earth hours. And at such proximity, the extreme gravity of the star - an exotic type known as a pulsar - pulls the entire planet into an oblong shape, like a lemon or a football."
"The planet's sun is a type of rapidly spinning neutron star. These are the almost impossibly dense stellar cores that are left over in the aftermath of a supernova, containing mass equal to our entire Sun in a package the size of a human city. (The resulting gravity is so extreme that if you could scoop just a tiny teaspoon of one of these objects without being instantly crushed into a soup of pure neutrons,"
PSR J2322-2650b is a roughly Jupiter-mass exoplanet orbiting a rapidly spinning neutron star (pulsar) at about one million miles, roughly 1% of the Earth–Sun distance. Its orbital period is 7.8 Earth hours, creating extreme tidal forces that distort the planet into a pronounced oblong shape. The host pulsar emits mostly gamma rays, making the system faint in infrared and allowing clearer observation of the planet with the James Webb Space Telescope. The planet's extreme deformation and orbital configuration challenge existing classifications and may indicate a new category of compact-object companions.
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