55 Cancri

An international team of astronomers today revealed details of a “super-exotic” exoplanet that would make the planet Pandora in the movie Avatar pale in comparison. Family portraits of two planetary systems: A simulation of the silhouette of planet 55 Cancri e passing in front of (“transiting”) its parent star, compared to the Earth and Jupiter transiting our Sun, as seen from outside the Solar System. The MOST space telescope detected the tiny dip in starlight caused when the super-Earth...Read Full Story

space.com — See what scientists think the nearby alien planet 55 Cancri e looks like. 6 hr 8 min ago View in Crawl 4Read Full Story

A group of astronomers led by an MIT professor has spotted an exoplanetary eclipse of a star only 40 light years away — right around the corner, astronomically speaking — revealing a “super-Earth.” The far-out planet, named 55 Cancri e, is twice as big as Earth and nearly nine times more massive. It is most likely composed of rocky material, similar to Earth, supplemented with light elements such as water and hydrogen gas. Scientists estimate the planet’s surface is much hotter than ours...Read Full Story

A planet that we thought we knew turns out to be rather different than first suspected. Our revised view comes from new data released today by an international team of astronomers. They made their observations of the planet "55 Cancri e" based on calculations by Harvard graduate student Rebekah Dawson (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), who worked with Daniel Fabrycky (now at the University of California, Santa Cruz) to predict when the planet crosses in front of its star as seen...Read Full Story

MessageToEagle.com - About 40 light years from Earth, a wacky world named "55 Cancri e" circles dangerously close to a stellar inferno, completing one orbit in only 18 hours. The alien planet is 26 times closer to its parent star than Mercury is to the Sun. The temperature on the planet's surface could be as high as 2,700 degrees Celsius.Read Full Story

Astronomers announced recently that the star 55 Cancri in the Constellation Cancer has at least five planets orbiting it. The star was known to have a planetary system similar to our Solar System for some time, but the existence of a fifth planet was just confirmed, making it the only known system with so many confirmed planets. Even more intriguing is the fact that this newly confirmed planet lies comfortably in the “habitable zone”, sparking hope that this newly discovered world, or...Read Full Story

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