Newest planetary discovery is small, fast and hot
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 - 14:35
in Astronomy & Space
A European space telescope has found a planet some 390 light years away with a diameter less than twice that of the Earth, making it the slimmest planet -if not the least massive - yet detected outside our solar system.
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