New Gaseous Planet Discovered Past Snow Line

Astronomers have discovered a new gaseous planet has been discovered nearly 1,000 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Lyra.

Gaseous Planet orbit places it beyond the "snow line"

What’s unusual is the planet's orbit places it beyond the "snow line" - the dividing line between rocky and gas planets. Outside of the snow line, water condenses into ice grains that stick together to build gas giant planets.  "The snow line is a crucial distance in planet formation theory. We think all gas giants must have formed beyond this distance," said study lead author David Kipping, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in...