A hot, metallic, Earth - sized planet with a density similar to Mercury - situated 339 million light years away — has been detected and characterised by
a global team of astronomers, including the University of Warwick.
A hot, metallic, Earth - sized planet with a density similar to Mercury — situated 339 light years away — has been detected and characterised by
a global team of astronomers, including the University of Warwick.
Not exact matches
Discovery
of the system's extraordinary properties was made by a
team of astronomers from Vanderbilt and Harvard with the assistance
of colleagues at Lehigh, Ohio State and Pennsylvania State universities, Las Cumbres Observatory
Global Telescope Network and the American Association
of Variable Star Observers and is described in a paper accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal.