Scientists discovered a strange new planet with boiling oceans

A planet just 70 light-years away has garnered quite a bit of attention from scientists. A group of astronomers uncovered the planet using data they picked up from the James Webb Space Telescope. Now, after looking at things more closely, they say that the planet may be a boiling ocean world that is hot enough to cook on. A paper on the discovery is published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, and it details the discovery of the new planet, which researchers have named TOI-270 d.

Based on the other data that James Webb parsed, astronomers also believe the planet's oceans are hot enough to boil water, reaching up to 212 degrees Fahrenheit. But the state of this boiling ocean world is up for a bit of a debate. That's because some astronomers believe that the data provided by Webb shows a very different composition.

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