Earth might once have resembled a hot, steamy doughnut
The newly proposed planetary shape is called a synestia
PUFFED UP Early in its development, a rocky planet may turn into a synestia (illustrated), a spinning disk of vaporized rock that looks like a jelly-filled doughnut with a small, solid core (gray).
S. Lock/Harvard Univ.
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