“Everyone has his dream; I would like to live till dawn, but I know I have less than three hours left. It will be night, but no matter. Dying is simple. It does not take daylight. So be it: I will die by starlight.” -Victor Hugo
Bizarre rocky exoworld - with what appears to be a normal day-night cycle - orbits so close to its parent star that the morning heat melts its surface.
WASHINGTON, June 2: NASA has said that it will be studying two hot exoplanets classified as super-Earths that is situated 50 light years away and among them is planet ’55 Cancri e’, which is sort of like Earth but closer to star. According to NASA, among the investigations planned for the first year are studies of two hot exoplanets classified as “super-Earths” for their size and rocky composition: the lava-covered 55 Cancri e and the airless LHS 3844 b. The […]