UW News
David James
May 17, 2017
Visiting astronomer at UW part of ‘Styrofoam’ planet discovery
![An artist's rendering of KELT-11b, a "Styrofoam"-density exoplanet orbiting a bright star in the southern hemisphere.](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2017/05/04141505/KELT-11b-Image-by-Walter-Robinson-Lehigh-University-150x150.jpg)
David James, a visiting scientist with the UW Department of Astronomy, assisted in the just-announced Lehigh University-led discovery of an exoplanet 320 light-years away with a density so light it is being called a “Styrofoam planet.”