New Delhi, Dec. 20 -- Nasas's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a planet more than 2,000 lights years from Earth that has a very unusual shape, the New York Times reported. The planet is shaped like a lemon - its equatorial diameter is 38% wider than its polar diameter. While most planets, including the Earth, are not perfect spheres and bulge slightly at the equator, the exoplanet in question, named PSR J2322-2650b, is "the most stretched out planet ever seen", NYT reported. "It's the stretchiest planet that we've confirmed the stretchiness of," said Michael Zhang, an exoplanet scientist at the University of Chicago and the lead author of a paper describing the planet published Tuesday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. When the planet was first discovered, it immediately caught attention for being a Jupiter-size gas giant orbiting a pulsar. Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars - collapsed core of massive stars - left over after supernovae. Planet PSR J2322-2650b is only one million miles from the star, completing an orbit in about eight hours and is the only gas giant known to be orbiting a pulsar, NYT reported. The planet's proximity to its star is what gives it its unusual shape due to the star's gravity, NYT reported. The team of researchers studied the planet's atmosphere using the telescope's infrared feature, the first time this has been done for a planet orbiting a pulsar. Aside from indicating the planet's odd shape, the observations also revealed the planet's strange atmosphere. The planet is devoid of hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, elements common on other planets, including gas giants. Instead, it is made mostly of helium and molecular carbon. "A helium- and carbon-dominated world is something we've never seen before," said Peter Gao, an exoplanet scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC, and an author of the paper, according to NYT. The scientists suggest two other possibilities to explain the planet. One, it may not be a planet at all but actually the remnant of a star that orbited the pulsar and was slowly consumed. Two, the planet may be an entirely new kind of object never before encountered....