Mercury, schmercury. This planet is really toasty
FEB 04, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023032
ScienceNow : Astronomers today reported the discovery of a planet beyond our solar system that’s just twice the diameter of Earth. But this new neighbor is far from habitable: CoRoT-Exo-7b is either a hellish world of erupting volcanoes and sizzling temperatures, or it’s covered by a scalding ocean. Either way, the discovery could pave the way toward finding more Earth-sized alien worlds, some of which may actually be habitable.
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