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Scienceline’s Guide to the Exoplanets: The Island – Scienceline
Scienceline’s Guide to the Exoplanets, the Island, one of the smallest known exoplanets, the size of Earth’s moon, and perhaps representative of others.
The IslandKepler-37bDiscovered by: KeplerDiscovered: 2013Distance from Earth: ~209 light-yearsMass: ~0.35 Earth massesRadius: ~0.01 Earth radiiSurface climate: RoastingHabitability from humans: No, but thats not the point
Today, were travelling a few hundred light years in the direction of the constellation Lyra. Our destination orbits Kepler-37, a humble star not entirely unlike the Sun, if a little cooler and somewhat older. In short, its a fairly unremarkable star in a fairly unremarkable pa…
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