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’48 light-years away’: NASA’s James Webb Telescope discovers new class of planets unlike any in our solar system (www.wionews.com)
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[–] edgemaster72 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"new class of planets unlike any in our solar system" well we only have the 8 which only fit in a few broad categories, so yeah I'd expect there to be tons of planet types not represented in our solar system, depending how specific the classification gets.