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I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn about some of the weirdest types of planets in our galaxy, the right way to tap on a can of soda to keep it from exploding,

and whether you can actually taste how strong a drink is.

What satisfy some curiosity on the award-winning Curiosity Daily.

Remember that time on this podcast when we talked about how there might be such a thing as a donut-shaped

planet?

Well, not all weird planets are hypothetical.

Today we're going to dive into some of the weirdest types of planets in our galaxy that we may have actually discovered.

I'll start with hot Neptune's and Hot Jupiter. Those are objects the size of Neptune or Jupiter that orbit close to their home star. We know about one hot Neptune called

G.J. 436B. It's about 10.2 parsecs away from Earth orbiting around a red dwarf.

Now when planets like these fly too close to their sun,

their atmospheres burn off really quickly.

And by close, I mean about 2% of Earth's distance from our Sun.

And when the atmosphere burns away completely,

the planet turns into what's called a Thonian planet,

that's spelled with a silent C.H.

at the beginning.

They are named for the Greek word Thonios, which refers to the Greek

deities of the underworld. And we found one of these planets called Coro 7B. It's a rocky

planet seven times the size of Earth and nearly five times its mass, and

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