Exoplanets: rocky rains and life under ice

Neptune-size planet called HAT-P-11b

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech

20th of March is the International Earth Day. We decided to talk to Dr Slava Kitaeff, astrophysicist from The University of Western Australia, about exoplanets.


The planet Kepler-78b, foreground, orbiting less than one million miles from its sun
Source: AP Photo/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, David A. Aguilar
55 Cancri e 3D Model
Source: NASA Visualization Technology Applications and Development (VTAD)

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