It was reported that Scientists have discovered a new
type of alien
planet — a steamy waterworld that is larger than Earth but smaller than Uranus.
The standard-bearer for this new class of
exoplanet is called GJ 1214b, which astronomers first
discovered in December 2009. New observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope suggest that GJ 1214b is a watery world
enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere.
"GJ 1214b is like no planet we know of,"
study lead author Zachory Berta of the Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., said in a statement. "A huge
fraction of its mass is made up of water."
Kudos to these great scientists, my Naija people I hope we are not sleeping?
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