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‘Mega-Earth’ And Doomed Planets Top Today’s Exoplanet Finds
Artist’s impression of “mega-Earth” Kepler 10c. Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA)
Can you imagine a world that is 17 times as massive as Earth, but still rocky? Or two planets that are doomed to be swallowed up by their parent star in just a blink of astronomical time?
While these scenarios sound like science fiction, these are real-life finds released today (June 2) at the American Astronomical Association meeting in Boston.
Here’s a rundown of the finds about these planets in our ever-more-amazing universe.
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© Elizabeth Howell for Universe Today, 2014. |
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