Earth-Size Planet Has Hot and Steamy Atmosphere?

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - 14:34 in Astronomy & Space

An Earth-size planet orbiting a dim, red star either has a blanket of ultrahot steam or a noxious, cloudy haze of hydrogen, new data reveal.

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