Rocky Exoplanet Baked And Sterilized By Its Host Star

Added by Debra Tash on August 19, 2016.
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Lola Gayle, search STEAM Register In November 2015, pills astronomers announced the discovery of a small planet, slightly bigger than Earth, located just 39 light-years from Earth. The newfound planet, known as GJ 1132b, orbits a red dwarf star only one-fifth the size of our Sun. GJ 1132b circles its star every 1.6 days at a distance of…

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William "Bill" Hicks

FROM A NOVICE POINT OF VIEW:

If this “planet” to too close to have water because it would have been vaporized off, why would their be oxygen either?

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