Super Earth is found, there may be "water world"

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[guide) Japanese scientists have found that super Earth outside the solar system may have "water world", and through studies of the GJ1214 B Super Earth, This extrasolar planet, about 40 light-years away, may contain an atmosphere of ice-water matter.

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Super Earth or the giant "Water World" is only 40 light-years from US
The Kepler space telescope allows us to recognize that there are a large number of planetary worlds outside the solar system, some of which do not exist in the solar system.
Tencent Science News (everett/compiled) according to foreign media reports, NASA's Kepler extrasolar planetary probe has now discovered more than 1000 potential planetary worlds, although the telescope platform has been unable to recover from a fatal failure, scientists have assembled a vast database of Kepler's space telescope, which is statistically likely to have terrestrial planets located on habitable zones. The researchers found in the Kepler telescope the types of extrasolar planets that did not exist in the solar system, such as the Super Earth, the massive gaseous planets very close to the stars, and so on, which greatly enriched the scientists ' understanding of planetary types and the evolution of the planets. Recently, scientists in Japan to study the solar system beyond the "Super Earth" may have a large "water resources", if such a planet is found, it is a veritable "super polo." The "Super Earth" outside the solar system is a planet of a size and mass that is several times larger than the Earth, with a mass of 2.5 to 10 times times that of the Earth, a planet that does not exist in the solar system. The more typical "Super Earth" is Gliese 876d, it was discovered in 2005, but the Super Earth does not imply a more life-threatening potential, and the Gliese 876d Super Earth is very close to the star, with an orbital period of less than 2 days, meaning the Super Earth's surface is a huge "stove". Planets in the solar system have larger orbits than Earth, such as Neptune or Uranus, but they are truly "ice giants" planets, and are in the outer orbits of the solar system, apparently unfit for cosmic life.
Astronomers and planetary scientists from Japan are concentrating on a super Earth called GJ1214 B, about 40 light-years from Earth, and it is noteworthy that scientists believe the planet has an atmospheric structure similar to that of the Earth, a study from the Japanese National Observatory in Wednesday. Scientists found that the planet formed in the dense gas disk around the star, which has a large number of hydrogen elements, and the original planet disk region beyond the star of the "Snow Line", which means that the super Earth is likely to have a part of the water content of the atmospheric structure. Scientists believe that if we can further determine the atmospheric composition of this super Earth, we can find its evolutionary history, the preliminary results suggest that it may have a rich surface of water resources.

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