Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Icy Exoplanet Discovered
















The above image shows an artist's conception of a recently discovered exoplanet. This planet is only five times the size of Earth, and orbits a red dwarf at a distance three times greater than that separating Earth and the Sun. Because of this large distance and the small size of its star, the expected surface temperature of the planet is -220 degrees celsius.

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