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03-30-2016, 09:10 PM
Astro**mers map the weather on an alien 'super-Earth' planet for the first time
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For the first time, astro**mers have mapped the weather on an alien planet slightly larger than Earth.
The super-Earth — which is a classification used for any planet with a mass 1 to 10 times greater than that of our home planet — is named 55 Cancri e and located about 40 light-years away from our solar system.*
A new study (http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature17169) published in the journal Nature on Wednesday*details the temperature map of the world, and even*suggests that the exoplanet, which was first discovered a few years ago, may have lava flows on its surface.*
SEE ALSO: Hubble Telescope provides first look at a 'super-Earth' atmosphere (http://mashable.com/2016/02/16/super-earth-atmosphere/) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/30/weather-map-super-earth-exoplanet/)
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For the first time, astro**mers have mapped the weather on an alien planet slightly larger than Earth.
The super-Earth — which is a classification used for any planet with a mass 1 to 10 times greater than that of our home planet — is named 55 Cancri e and located about 40 light-years away from our solar system.*
A new study (http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature17169) published in the journal Nature on Wednesday*details the temperature map of the world, and even*suggests that the exoplanet, which was first discovered a few years ago, may have lava flows on its surface.*
SEE ALSO: Hubble Telescope provides first look at a 'super-Earth' atmosphere (http://mashable.com/2016/02/16/super-earth-atmosphere/) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/30/weather-map-super-earth-exoplanet/)
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