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.

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• The 5th Planet -A New "Exo" Discovery
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