“A newly discovered exoplanet is the first such alien world to resemble the planets in our own solar system, researchers announced Wednesday,” reports Andrea Thompson for Space.com / MSNBC.com.
“The planet, dubbed CoRoT-9b, was found to be about the size of Jupiter and situated at an orbit similar to Mercury, which is the innermost planet in our solar system,” reports Thompson.
“While that seems close, it is much farther away than other gas giant planets found around alien stars with the exoplanet detection method used in the new study,” reports Thompson. “This distance in turn means that CoRoT-9b has a more temperate climate than so-called “hot Jupiters” that can experience radical temperature swings.”
Read the full article here at Space.com
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