Astronomers discover exoplanet shaped like a rugby ball

Planets are typically round bodies in space that orbit stars, at least most of the time anyway: We’ve just gotten our first look at an exoplanet that has been deformed by its star’s gravity into a rugby ball-like body.

While it sounds weird as heck, this isn’t unexpected — but it is the first time we’ve ever actually seen something like this out in the universe. The exoplanet, detected by the ESA’s Cheops exoplanet-hunting mission, orbits WASP-103 in the constellation Hercules. 

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