Super-Earth vs. Sub-Neptune? The Winner is Super-Venus! (IMAGE)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Super-Earth vs. Sub-Neptune? The Winner is Super-Venus!

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Artist’s impression of GJ 1214 b passing in front of its host star. The “transit method” allows astronomers to study an exoplanet by seeing which wavelengths of light dim when the star’s light passes through the exoplanet atmosphere.

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