Tuesday, December 16, 2014

ScienceDaily: Stars News

ScienceDaily: Stars News


Stretched-out solid exoplanets

Posted: 15 Dec 2014 05:44 AM PST

Astronomers could soon be able to find rocky planets stretched out by the gravity of the stars they orbit. Since the first discovery in 1993, more than 1800 planets have been found in orbit around stars other than our Sun. These 'exoplanets' are incredibly diverse, with some gaseous like Jupiter and some mostly rocky like the Earth. The worlds also orbit their stars at very different distances, from less than a million km to nearly 100 billion km away.

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