Mega-Earth in Draco Smashes Notions of Planetary Formation
Moffet Field CA (NASA) Jun 20, 2014 - Worlds like this one aren't supposed to exist. In Draco the Dragon-the 8th largest constellation in our sky-there exists asolid planet weighing close to 17 times as much as Earth. This announcement rocked the scientific world. "We were very surprised when we realized what we had found," said Dr. Xavier Dumusque of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), who led the analysis that l ... more
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