Rocky planet, just like Earth, found
皇冠体育app Daily | Updated: 2009-09-17 08:05
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An artist's impression released by European Southern Observatory yesterday shows the smallest and fastest-orbiting exoplanet known, Corot-7b (foreground), around a star named Corot-7, located towards the constellation of Monoceros (the Unicorn) at a distance of about 500 light-years. AFP |
WASHINGTON: Astronomers have finally found a place outside our solar system where there's a firm place to stand - if only it weren't so broiling hot.
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