COROT-7b Looking Toward its Star (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

COROT-7b Looking Toward its Star

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The exoplanet COROT-7b is close enough to its star that its "day-face" is hot enough to melt rock. Theoretical models suggest the planet has an atmosphere mad up of the components of rock in gaseous form and lava or boiling oceans on its surface.

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Image by ESO/L. Calcada

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