"Young" exoplanet may end up a super-Earth
The latest of some 5,780 exoplanets so far discovered outside our own solar system is described as a "young" planet that may develop into a super-Earth: a world compositionally similar to our own but much larger."Astronomers got lucky," writes Mark Kaufman.
Most exoplanets today are discovered by …
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