It is the second smallest exoplanet discovered by the CoRoT team so far after CoRoT-7b, the first transiting Super-Earth. |
The first potentially habitable exoplanet was discovered orbiting the star Gliese 581, which is 20.5 lightyears away. |
The possible exoplanet is orbiting a star known as GQ Lup, thought to be similar to our own Sun, when it was younger. |
Could it be an exoplanet in orbit around that young brown dwarf object at a projected distance of about 8,250 million km? |
The news of an exoplanet discovery is hardly earthshaking anymore, which is disappointing in a way. |
They theorize that the object that cleared the dust is an exoplanet at least as large as Jupiter. |