An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we’ve never seen before.

The exoplanet Enaiposha, or GJ 1,214 b, is a hazy world orbiting a red dwarf star about 47 light-years from Earth. Previously likened to a mini-Neptune, in-depth observations obtained using JWST now suggest the exoplanet is more like Venus – only much larger.

This would make it the first known of its kind, a category astronomers are calling ‘Super-Venus’