Super Earth | Space Wallpaper

Wednesday, May 7, 2014 - 23:30 in Astronomy & Space

This space wallpaper is an illustration of the hypothetical appearance of the exoplanet GJ 1214b, which is known as a "super-Earth" type planet because it is slightly more than six Earth masses.

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