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Tango01 | 14 Apr 2017 3:41 p.m. PST |
"An international team of astronomers, led by Keele University researcher John Southworth, has managed to detect an atmosphere around GJ 1132b, a ‘super-Earth' exoplanet in the constellation Vela, 39.3 light-years from us. "GJ 1132's proximity to the Sun means that it is comparatively bright and therefore well-suited to analyses aimed at constraining the properties of both the star and the planet," Dr. Southworth and co-authors said.
The detection of an atmosphere around GJ 1132b marks the first time an atmosphere has been detected around an extrasolar planet with a mass and diameter close to that of Earth…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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