Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Lava oceans may not explain the brightness of some hot super-Earths

Boston MA (SPX) Aug 12, 2020
Arguably some of the weirdest, most extreme planets among the more than 4,000 exoplanets discovered to date are the hot super-Earths - rocky, flaming-hot worlds that zing so precariously close to their host stars that some of their surfaces are likely melted seas of molten lava. These fiery worlds, about the size of Earth, are known more evocatively as "lava-ocean planets," and scientists

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