Astronomers Discover Super Earth; A Water World
IBTimes Wednesday 22nd February, 2012
NASA and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, have discovered water on GJ1214b, an Earth-sized exo planet, indicating there is a strong possibility it can (if it does not already) support life. GJ1214b was discovered in 2009 by the ground-based MEarth Project. It is about 2.7 times Earth's diameter and weighs almost 7 times as much. It...






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