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Some TRAPPIST-1 planets may have the right conditions for water

Some TRAPPIST-1 planets may have the right conditions for water

31 August 2017

Water on the planets nearest the TRAPPIST-1 star would be destroyed by UV radiation but it could survive on the cooler worlds in the habitable zone
Enormous exoplanet has an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron

Enormous exoplanet has an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron

2 August 2017

A planet nearly double the size of Jupiter and 900 light years away has a glowing stratosphere and an atmosphere hot enough that iron there exists as a vapour

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