A lab experiment modeled off conditions on the two planets showed the high pressure underground likely produces diamonds that fall to the planets' cores
Neptune
AU Mic is a young star between 20 and 30 million years old
The researchers believe that the planet may exist despite its location because it formed elsewhere and migrated into the Neptunian Desert zone!
"It's so strange and exotic. We just think of it as this exotic, ocean world - it's a real outlier compared to the others"
A new debate is upon us...
This is the largest set of discoveries ever made, increasing the number of distant objects with well-known paths around the sun by 50%