'Super Earths' And 'Hot Jupiters': Imagine Another World. Now Imagine 5,000 More - Forbes India

NASA recently announced that it had detected more than 5,000 exoplanets, so we asked astronomers, actors and an astronaut to share their favorite worlds orbiting distant stars.

Luis Calçada, a science visualization artist who works with the European Southern Observatory, chose another hot Jupiter: Vega b. This star, which is only 25 light-years away from us, is central to … [+1827 chars]

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