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Friday, February 24, 2012

Like no other planet

Scientist find a world like no other. It's a steamy waterworld, which was discovered in 2009. It's in the area of space GJ1214b.

This planet is as light and airy as Styrofoam but as dense as iron. It orbits two suns in the constellation of Ophiuchus.

Its size is 2.7 times Earth's diameter. It weighs 7 times as much. The star it orbits is red dwarf, at 1.2 million miles.away. It is a whopping 446 degrees. It's composed of a water like substance, that can withstand that heat. It's surface represent our world, for it has a lot more liquid than rock. This planet once experienced earth like temperatures and it formed from a star where water ice.was plentiful.

The James Webb telescope, which is to be launched in 2018 will let us see it better. The high temperature and pressure create hot ice and.superfluid water which are completely alien to us.

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