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Gas Giant
DiscoveriesBrightest stars in the night sky can strip Neptune-sized planets to their rocky cores
In the last 25 years, astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around stars in our galaxy, but more than 99% of them orbit small stars
Joseph Shavit![](https://www.thebrighterside.news/uploads/2024/04/95ac29_01905d88d0324955b6a946d38d3a0797mv2.jpeg?auto=webp&auto=webp&optimize=high&quality=70&width=1440)
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