This week ‘s Astronomy & Space newsletter is here and James Webb is all the rage. This week NASA announced that the fancy telescope will focus itself on two “super earth” planets one of them containing essentially an atmosphere of entirely lava.
NASA hopes that studying the two super-earths up close and personal it’ll help researchers understand how such planets are actually formed and particularly how that of our own earth likely formed billions of years ago. Despite many efforts and decades of research NASA still doesn’t fully know exactly how the earth formed or perhaps why.
One of those planets called 55 Cancri e has a surface temp of more than 2,000 degrees. The daylight side of the planet is understood to be nothing short of a lava-induced hell.
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